Rosa Parks Museum

The Rosa Parks Museum is located on the Troy University at Montgomery satellite campus, in Montgomery, Alabama.[1] It has information, exhibits, and some artifacts from the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott. This museum is named after civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who is known for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person on a city bus.[2]

Rosa Parks Museum
Rosa Parks Museum
Location252 Montgomery Street, Montgomery, Alabama 36104
CountryUnited States
Websitehttp://visitingmontgomery.com/play/rosa-parks-library-museum-childrens-wing
History
FoundedDecember 1, 2000

Museum

Inside the museum, there are interactive activities and even a reenactment of what happened on the bus as if you were outside the bus watching. There are artifacts in the museum from the Montgomery Bus Boycott.[3]

This museum is significant to Montgomery because it exhibits events that had occurred during the civil rights era in Alabama. one of the reasons to build the museum was due to the bus boycott that occurred in Montgomery. It was built in Rosa Parks's honor to educate and tell people of her story.[3] While the actual bus the incident occurred on has been scrapped, the Museum has on exhibit another which is identical to it.

Dedication

Troy University in Montgomery, Alabama wanted to dedicate their new library and museum to Rosa Parks, "The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement". The library carries her name and it commemorates her refusal to give up her seat on the Montgomery City Bus to a white man. The museum and library were opened on the anniversary of the day she refused to give up her seat: December 1.[3]

References
  1. Norman, Georgette M. "Troy University Rosa Parks Museum". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Retrieved 2017-05-16.
  2. Carrillo, Karen (2012). African American History Day By Day: A Reference Guide to Events. California. p. 47.
  3. "troy.edu - Rosa Parks Museum / History". www.troy.edu. Retrieved 2017-04-25.

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