

Moore would tell her daddy, “I’ll just wait for you out here while you eat Mr.

When her mother fixed dinner and called for the men to come eat, Mr. Back in South Carolina, her closest playmates were the children of Curly Moore, a black man who helped her daddy get the fields ready for planting every year in the spring. My grandmother, who came from a small, rural town in South Carolina had never ridden on a city bus before. They wanted to go see a “picture show” in Atlanta and had to ride a bus to get there.

In 1955, when my grandmother was ten years old, she went to visit cousins in Stone Mountain, Georgia. Picture taken at the Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa Parks Mother of The Civil Rights Movement By Madeline Haynes
