Who is who on the Rosa Parks family tree
All 7 people on the chart are listed.
| Portrait | Person | Years | Life | On the chart |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE | Sylvester EdwardsMaternal grandfather | Not recorded | Kept the family farm at Pine Level. | Find on the chart |
| RE | Rose EdwardsMaternal grandmother | Not recorded | Rosa was named in part after her. Sources3 | Find on the chart |
| JM | James McCauleyFather | Not recorded | Carpenter and stonemason from Abbeville. | Find on the chart |
| LE | Leona Edwards McCauleyMother | ?–1979 | Teacher from Pine Level. She died in 1979. | Find on the chart |
 | Rosa ParksCivil rights activist | 1913–2005 | Born at Tuskegee. Arrested in Montgomery on 1 December 1955. Sources1 | Find on the chart |
| SM | Sylvester McCauleyYounger brother | Not recorded | Lived in Detroit, where the Parkses joined him in 1957. | Find on the chart |
| RP | Raymond ParksHusband | 1903–1977 | Barber and charter member of the Montgomery NAACP. Sources4 | Find on the chart |
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The article is unsigned, so the site stands as author and the date is its last revision. Cite the numbered sources for the facts and the article for the chart. Each reference gives the address of the article.
- APAGenogram Builder. (2026, November 10). The Rosa Parks family tree, from Pine Level to Detroit. https://genogrambuilder.org/history/rosa-parks-family-tree
- MLA“The Rosa Parks Family Tree, from Pine Level to Detroit.” Genogram Builder, 10 Nov. 2026, https://genogrambuilder.org/history/rosa-parks-family-tree.
- ChicagoGenogram Builder. “The Rosa Parks Family Tree, from Pine Level to Detroit.” Last modified November 10, 2026. https://genogrambuilder.org/history/rosa-parks-family-tree.
- HarvardGenogram Builder (2026) The Rosa Parks Family Tree, from Pine Level to Detroit. Available at: https://genogrambuilder.org/history/rosa-parks-family-tree (Accessed: 10 November 2026).
The files are drawn in this browser from the chart of the article, with the credit of every portrait under it.
Sources
Every source of this Rosa Parks family tree was opened on 10 November 2026. The Library of Congress exhibition on her papers refused automated reading, so the family details rest on the Encyclopedia of Alabama, the National Women’s History Museum and Wikipedia, whose articles cite the biographies by Douglas Brinkley and Jeanne Theoharis.
Encyclopedia of Alabama
National Women’s History Museum
Wikipedia
Library of Congress, on Wikimedia Commons
Portrait credits
Each name leads to the file on Wikimedia Commons. The portraits in the article are in the public domain or under CC0.
- Rosa Parks, Unknown author, 1956.
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