Rosa Parks series · Finding #76 · Friday 2 October 2026

“Rosa Parks in Richmond! ‘After the Bus Ride…’” — October 2, 1993

A substantial dated booklet in the Rosa Parks Papers documents a Neighborhood House of North Richmond dinner that assigned Parks the keynote after local civil-rights messages and a House Raffle Kick-Off. The program establishes the plan — not attendance, delivery, raffle proceeds, or exact hall.

What the booklet establishes

Saturday, October 2, 1993, Richmond, California. Sponsor: Neighborhood House of North Richmond. Theme quoted on the cover: “Rosa Parks in Richmond! ‘After the Bus Ride…’.”

Master of ceremonies: Joe Marshall (Omega Boys Club, San Francisco). Convener: Joseph Brooks. Invocation/benediction: Father Thomas Hamilton.
Before dinner: Mayor George Livingston and honorary chair Ike Milton.
Sequence includes civil-rights messages attributed to Roy Hopkins, Enrique Ramirez, and Pat Norman; Rebeca Mingura assigned an award presentation; a House Raffle Kick-Off; then “Keynote Speaker … Mrs. Rosa Parks.”
Committees and sponsor acknowledgments list municipal figures, donors, and a Marriott Hotel — a hotel among sponsors is not proof the dinner occurred there, nor are acknowledgments receipts for a fundraising sum.
Organization self-description covers alcohol/drug recovery, senior services, HIV/AIDS, education, job training, Southeast Asian outreach, and violence prevention — contemporary self-description, not demonstrated effectiveness.

A bus image in the booklet is explicitly a UPI/Bettmann photograph captioned December 21, 1956 (Montgomery bus integration day), alongside an excerpt from Rosa Parks: My Story. Neither image nor excerpt documents a 1993 onsite appearance.

What remains open

No unmistakable hall name, doors-open hour, eyewitness report, dated onsite photograph, recording, or text of Parks’s address. No verified post-event account from the West County Times, Richmond Post, or other local media is cited. An online search summary asserting book-signing that day was unsupported by its linked evidence and is not adopted. A dated local report or specifically captioned event photograph could upgrade scheduled keynote to delivered keynote.

Source trail

Repo: rosa-parks-richmond-1993-neighborhood-house. LOC 1993 Events folder 2 (cover leaf 2; program leaf 4; committees leaf 5; sponsors leaf 6; org description leaf 7; bus caption leaf 11). Institutional images only.