The former Detroit home of the late civil rights activist Rosa Parks has been approved for a local historic district ...

For months, internet users have circulated a rumor that civil rights activist Rosa Parks' husband, Raymond Parks, had a car. Many commenters appeared to believe the claim discredited Parks, who ...

Rosa Parks and her husband Raymond lived in the Detroit flat from 1961 until 1988. The flat's owner sought the historic ...

Parks desire to continue working to improve the lives of others and fight injustice was the reason the two of them started the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development in 1987.

Rosa Parks' Husband Did Not Own a Car An image of Parks and her husband, Raymond Parks, in front of a white car often accompanies this claim.

Rosa Parks collecting NAACP membership dues of $2, likely during a trip to Los Angeles in 1956. Photograph by McLain's Photo Service. Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development/Library ...

Rosa McCauley grew up in a political family, but when she met Raymond Parks, “the first real activist I ever met” she saw the possibility of collective struggle.

Roger Guenveur Smith and Meta Golding star as Raymond and Rosa Parks in "Behind the Movement." TV One History tells us that Rosa Parks (1913-2005) refused to relinquish her bus seat to a white man ...

Rosa Parks is an icon of the civil rights movement. But as historian Jeanne Theoharis recounts, she didn’t just get arrested once on a bus. Parks was a lifelong activist.

Parks said upon retiring from her job with Conyers that she wanted to devote more time to the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development.

A proposal is pending for the former Detroit home of Civil Rights Movement activists Rosa and Raymond Parks to be named a local historic district.

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks documents much of that experience. For example: In 1932 at the age of 19, she married Raymond Parks, a barber who was already a member of the NAACP.