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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
The Rosa Parks museum in Montgomery will be offering free admission to celebrate the 58th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The Associated press reports free admission to the main Rosa Parks Museum and the Children’s Wing will be offered to visitors on Dec. 2.
The museum is built on the site of the Empire Theatre, where Rosa Parks was arrested on Dec. 1, 1955, for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus. Her arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott the following day.
By Dec. 5, 1955, only four days after Parks’s arrest, an estimated 90 percent of Montgomery’s black population stayed off of city busses. The boycott lasted for more than a year and cemented names like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy into civil rights history.
The 7,000 square foot Rosa Parks museum occupies the first floor of the Troy-Montgomery Campus Library. Free admission to patron will be offered on Monday, Dec. 2 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
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