Since at least 2024, social media users have claimed that Raymond Parks, the husband of civil rights/ bus boycott activist Rosa Parks, had a car. One post on X from May 2025 that repeated the ...

A claim began circulating online in early 2024 that civil rights activist Rosa Parks' husband, Raymond Parks, had a car. It's unclear where the rumor originated, but it was repeated by American ...

The bus drivers are also keeping their headlights on all day. The buses' electronic header also bears a special message for Parks on her birthday. Parks died in 2005 at 92 years old.

Rosa Parks sitting on a bus in 1956 Parks was born on Feb. 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Over a century later, her birthday coincides with what is now recognized in Fort Wayne as Transit Equity Day .

In 1955, she famously refused to give up her bus seat during segregation. “We’re celebrating her birthday, Rosa Parks, if she was living, she would be 111 years old,” said BRAGG Advocate ...