Rosa Parks Museum

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. Mrs. Parks was arrested, it is the nation’s only museum dedicated to Rosa Parks. The museum’s collection contains a number of historically significant artifacts including the original fingerprint arrest record of Mrs. Parks, a bus from the 1955 fleet of Montgomery city buses, original works of art including statuary and quilts, court documents and police reports and a restored 1955 station wagon used to transport boycotters.