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Raymond Parks (activist)
American civil rights activist, husband of Rosa Parks (1903–1977)
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.[1][2] His wife called him "the first real activist I ever met.”[3]
Life and work
Parks was born in 1903 in Wedowee, Alabama, the son of David Parks and Geri Culbertson.
He did not receive a formal education as there was no nearby black school where he lived.[1] He taught himself to read with the help of his mother and had an appreciation for poetry.[4] Parks spent much of his childhood caring for ill family members and was orphaned as a teenager.[1]
Parks worked as a barber in Tuskegee, Montgomery, Maxwell Air Force Base, Hampton, Virginia, and Detroit, Michigan.[5][6][7]
Civil rights activism
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