Welcome to Disney's Magic of Storytelling podcast, brought to you by Wake Med Children's,

because inside every child is a story waiting to be told. Our storyteller is ABC 11 news anchor Lauren

Johnson. Reading National Geographic Kids, the story of Rosa Parks.

Who was Rosa Parks?

Can you imagine a world where white children could ride a school bus every morning, but black children had to walk?

Can you imagine a world where black people couldn't drink from the same water fountains as white people?

Or sit with them on a city bus.

This world was real, and it happened in the United States.

Some white people felt they should be treated better than black people.

Segregation laws were used to give more rights and a better life to white people.

Rosa Parks helped change these unfair laws by thinking and acting.

She stood up for herself and others her whole life.

Growing up,

Rosa Parks was born as Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4th, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama.

She lived on a farm with her parents and grandparents.

She was a small, quiet girl. She loved to read nursery rhymes and fairy tales like

Little Red Riding Hood. She also helped take care of her little brother, Sylvester.

Rosa's grandparents were born as slaves. They taught her that all people deserve fair treatment.

When Rosa was a child, slavery was over, but white people still had more freedom than black people.

One day when Rosa was 11, a white boy pushed her.

She pushed him back.

The boy's mother told Rosa she would go to jail.

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