Rosa parks was best known for her act of civil disobedience in december of 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to white man in montgomery alabama her arrest led to a supreme court decision that segregation on such forms of public transportation was illegal sparking the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Rosa parks was home schooled by her mother until the age 11 when she attended a all girls school at the age 16 early 11th grade rosa parks dropped out of high school to take care of her dying grand mother shortly after to take care of her ill mother in 1932 at the age 19 rosa parks married raymond parks rosa parks did not have any children. Early life and family parks was born rosa louise mccauley on february 4 1913 in tuskegee alabama her parents james and leona mccauley separated when parks was two