Ebook Description :

Photograph shows a three quarter length studio portrait of raymond parks 1903 1977 rosa parks husband. Husband raymond parks raymond parks was born in wedowee alabama the son of david a carpenter and geri culbertson parks he spent his childhood caring for ill family members and was orphaned as a teen a mutual friend introduced raymond to rosa in the spring of 1931 he proposed on their second date. His famous wife rosa parks became an iconic civil rights leader during the 1955 montgomery bus boycott in alabama yet rosas husband was daring in a far more significant far reaching way than the white lightning peddling white stock car owner who shares his name even before he and rosa married raymond parks did dangerous things