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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. His wife called him "the first real activist I ever met.”
Raymond Parks (1903–1977) was a carpenter and a civil rights activist who married Rosa Parks in 1932. Learn about his life, his role in the Montgomery bus boycott, and his relationship with Rosa Parks through the Library of Congress exhibition.
Dec 1, 2020 · 1931: Parks is introduced to Raymond Parks, whom she later described as being the first activist she encountered. December 18, 1932: Rosa weds Raymond Parks. A photograph of Raymond Parks;...
Rosa Parks was the "mother of the modern day civil rights movement" in America, who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in 1955. She was married to Raymond Parks, a self-educated activist and co-founder of the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development.
In 1931, she met Raymond Parks, a politically active barber, and they married in 1932. She joined him in organizing in defense of the nine Scottsboro boys, falsely accused of rape. This letter from Rosa Parks to her mother details her activities in New York in May 1956, including the Madison Square Garden rally for civil rights.
Nov 9, 2009 · Rosa Parks (1913—2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955.
Rosa Parks was a civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. She was married to Raymond Parks, a barber and NAACP member, and moved to Detroit after the boycott.
