Rosa Parks Childhood Home in Abbeville, Alabama

Before she was "the first lady of civil rights," Rosa Parks was Rosa Louise McCauley, born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee to Leona, a school teacher, and James McCauley, a skilled carpenter and stonemason.

Shortly after her birth, her family moved into this house owned by her grandparents, situated on a 260-acre farm in Abbeville.  A historical marker on the road marks the modest farmhouse as the home of one of the most famous figures in the American civil rights movement.