Author to discuss new Rosa Parks book at Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum Feb. 25

Author Susan Reyburn will discuss the new book

Author Susan Reyburn will discuss the new book "Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words" at 6 p.m., Feb. 25 at the Rosa Parks Museum.

 Susan Reyburn, senior writer-editor in the Library of Congress Publishing Office, will visit Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum at 6 p.m. on Feb. 25 to discuss her new book “Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words.”

The event is free and open to the public and will be held in the museum’s auditorium.

The new book…

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Rosa Parks Museum teams with That’s My Child for Junior Curator exhibit

This image of a sit-in on Montgomery's Dexter Avenue is among the photographs featured in the Rosa Parks Museum's upcoming Junior Curator Exhibit.

This image of a sit-in on Montgomery's Dexter Avenue is among the photographs featured in the Rosa Parks Museum's upcoming Junior Curator Exhibit.

A new exhibit featuring Civil Rights-era photographs and representing a collaboration between Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum and students from That’s My Child will open Jan. 16.

The exhibit, “2020 Visions of Civil Rights,” is made possible through the Museum’s partnerships with the Alabama Department of Archives and History, the Alabama Power Foundation and…

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Rosa Parks Day activities commemorate Civil Rights icon

A unity march from the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church to the Rosa Parks Museum was among the activities commemorating Rosa Parks Day.

A unity march from the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church to the Rosa Parks Museum was among the activities commemorating Rosa Parks Day.

On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a Montgomery city bus outside the department store where she worked as a seamstress.

A few blocks later, in front of what was then the Empire Theater, Mrs. Parks would be arrested for failing to relinquish her seat to a white male passenger in a…

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Exhibit celebrates work of African American artists, provides new experiences for Valiant Cross students

Dr. Felicia Bell, director of the Rosa Parks Museum, addresses crowd at the opening reception for the Junior Curator exhibit.

Dr. Felicia Bell, director of the Rosa Parks Museum, addresses crowd at the opening reception for the Junior Curator exhibit.

A project representing a collaborative effort between students at Montgomery’s Valiant Cross Academy and Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum has resulted in an exhibit featuring the work of African American artists from Alabama.

On display now through April 1 in the museum’s exhibit hall, “Down South: From the Souls of African American Artists of Alabama”…

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