Rosa Parks married Raymond Parks, a barber, in 1932, and they remained married until his death in 1977. They had no children. Raymond Parks was born in 1903… Her hometown of Tuskegee, Alabama was home to the Tuskegee Institute, which was led for many years by Booker T. Washington. He died in 1915, two years after Rosa Parks was born… Rosa Parks’s bus ride was reminiscent of Homer Plessy‘s refusal to leave an all-white rail car in Louisiana in 1892… Her refusal to relinquish her seat came nine months after teenager Claudette Colvin was arrested for the very same thing… Rosa Parks was played by Angela Bassett in the 2002 TV movie The Rosa Parks Story.