Leona Carlie

Leona Edwards was born in Pine Level, Alabama, the youngest of Sylvester and Rose Edwards’s three daughters. She attended Payne University in Selma but did not earn a degree. Leona became a dedicated rural school teacher, and her meager salary was the main source of the family’s income. She instilled in Rosa the importance of faith, self-respect, and education—values reinforced by her grandparents and the teachers at Miss White’s School, a school that Rosa would attend at age eleven. Source: Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/exhibitions/rosa-parks-in-her-own-words/about-t...

Leona Edwards McCauley was born on 2 April 1887. She was a mix of African, white and Native American. Leona worked an a poorly paid elementary school teacher. During the war her mother worked in Detroit, Michigan, and Rosa saw that African Americans in the North had more freedom than did African Americans in the South. On 12 April 1912, she married to James McCauley. James was a carpenter and a builder. Divorced? Married Jim Carlie?

• Mother of social reformer Rosa Parks.
• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jan 10 2018, 0:22:38 UTC