Rosa Parks Museum, Montgomery, Alabama, USA

Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum is an active memorial to the life of civil rights icon Rosa Parks and the lessons of the Montgomery Bus Boycott that brought racial integration to transportation and international attention to civil rights.

Rosa Parks Museum: 252 Montgomery St, Montgomery, Alabama, USA

Located in downtown Montgomery, Alabama at the site where Mrs. Parks was arrested, it is the nation’s only museum dedicated to Rosa Parks.

Taking photos inside the main museum was not allowed. These photos in this post are from where taking photos were allowed.

This bus takes passengers through past times when people of color did not have civil rights. It is a time machine.

Video through the bus window shows what happened a time ago

This room chronicles how the Black people in Montgomery won the right to have no segregation in the city bus.

Separate but Equal becomes the norm

Sixty years later, Separate but Equal became not legal in education but is still the rule of the land for most other things.

Separate seats for black and white on city buses caused many black people to feel degraded and caused revolt here and there.

There were lawsuits to stop bus segregation.

The supreme court decided that bus segregation was unconstitutional.

What happened before the supreme court decision?

Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving her seat to a white passenger on a city bus.

This started the bus protest – black people would no longer ride the bus.

The black people in Montgomery started to use a carpool system, bypassing the bus system.

The city arrested everyone connected with the protest.

In November of that year, the US Supreme Court decided that bus segregation was unconstitutional.

After the decision, violence erupted.