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

A Detroit City Council committee took a step on Thursday toward officially recognizing the former longtime flat of civil rights icon Rosa Parks and her husband, Raymond, as a local historic district, ...

Rosa Parks and her husband standing in front of a car. (Library of Congress) While the photo is legitimate and can be found in the Library of Congress' archives, the car wasn't owned by Raymond Parks.

The Rosa Parks Collection had long been sequestered and unavailable to scholars because of a dispute over her estate and the collection’s hefty asking price.

Parks' activities in Yakima to help celebrate Black History Month came after donations and months of work by community organizations. The Rosa Parks Committee raised $15,000 to bring her to the city.

When Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, police in Montgomery, Alabama arrested her. While she wasn’t the first person to use a bus ...

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 was 42 and all of 5 feet tall in 1955 when she refused an order from a bus driver to give up her seat to a white passenger. But by some transmutation known only to talented actors, Becky ...

She moved there with her husband Raymond Parks and her mother Leona McCauley in August of 1957.” The flat where the Parks family lived in Detroit, likely where Rosa Parks wrote down her peanut ...

In search of work, Parks and her husband traveled to Detroit, Michigan in 1957 where they continued their activism.