When the Ku Klux Klan marched down the street in front of her house, her grandfather guarded the front door wielding a shotgun. Although she recounted early memories of the kindness she received from white strangers, she never forgot nor could she ignore the racism in her society. Alice White later wrote a letter to Rosa parks just before her death in 1935 which Parks considered one of her prized possessions and a reminder that not all whites were racist. Margaret Beard, two white Christian education reformers who believed in racial equality whose aim was to give their students a sense of pride during a time of racial segregation. The Industrial School was founded and staffed by Alice White and H. She went to a laboratory school set up by the Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes for secondary education but dropped out in order to care for her grandmother and mother after they became ill. Between 19, she attended the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls where she took academic and vocational courses. Rosa attended rural schools until the age of eleven. When her parents separated, Rosa McCauley and her mother moved to Pine Level, just outside of Montgomery, to live with her maternal grandparents and her father moved to California for better opportunities. Her father would go on to design and construct the Henry County Training School for black students in 1914. Shortly after her birth, her family moved into this house in Abbeville situated on a 260-acre farm owned by her grandparents, Anderson and Louisa McCauley. Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee to Leona, a school teacher, and James McCauley, a skilled carpenter and stonemason.
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