Rosa Parks Museum
252 Montgomery Street
Montgomery, Alabama 36104
334.241.8661
www.troy.edu

Explore the struggle of a female civil-rights activist at the Troy University Rosa Parks Library and Museum on the Montgomery Campus. Rosa Parks’s refusal to give up her seat on a public bus in 1955 to a white man was the act of defiance that led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott that lasted 381 days. The boycott didn’t end until the United States Supreme Court ruled the segregation of bus service to be unconstitutional. The Museum holds monuments that allow visitors to imagine what the year 1955 may have been like for an African American in the United States previous to the enactment of civil-rights legislation. Artifacts include a 1955, restored station wagon, a replica of the public bus on which Parks was sitting, and original historical documents of the era. In the new Children’s Wing, visitors will go back in time on the “Cleveland Avenue Time Machine” to discover that change occurs because of personal initiative.