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Raymond Arthur Parks (February 12, 1903 – August 19, 1977) was an American activist in the civil rights movement and barber, best known as the husband of Rosa Parks. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] His wife called him "the first real activist I ever met.” [ 3 ]
In 1931, Rosa was introduced to her future husband, Raymond Parks, by a mutual friend. [25] She was initially "[not] very interested in him" because of "some unhappy romantic experiences" [a] and because of his light skin. [27] However, Raymond eventually persuaded Rosa to ride with him in his car.
Taking a stand. Pink paid tribute to Rosa Parks while attending a Black Lives Matter protest with her husband, Carey Hart. Shutterstock The “Just Give Me a Reason” singer, 40, shared a picture ...
Nine months before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to move to the back of a bus to give up her seat to a white ...
Both she and her husband later lost their jobs, but her courageous act of civil disobedience sparked the now-legendary Montgomery Bus Boycott, a 381-day non-violent protest by the Black community ...
Unit 634 was home to civil rights activist Rosa Parks, her husband Raymond, and her mother, Leona McCauley, during the Montgomery bus boycott from 1955 to 1956. The building was placed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on March 30, 1989, and the National Register of Historic Places on October 29, 2001. [1] [2]
The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development was created in honor of Rosa Parks' husband, Raymond Parks (1903–1977). The Institute was co-founded in February 1987 [1] by Rosa Parks and her long-time friend Elaine Eason Steele. It has its headquarters in Detroit, Michigan [2] and Washington, DC. [3]
Edna May Griffin (1909 – February 8, 2000) was an American civil rights pioneer and human rights activist.Known as the "Rosa Parks of Iowa", her court battle against the Katz Drug Store in Des Moines in 1948, State of Iowa v.