TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) — Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum is preparing to honor the civil rights icon’s birthday.

Rosa Parks was born Feb. 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. 113 years later, Troy’s Rosa Parks Museum plans to honor not only Park’s birth, but also her lasting legacy.

“She was an activist throughout her life for about seven decades,” Rosa Parks Museum Director Donna Beisel said. “She was really working to try to bring about equality and equity for all people, and so that’s what we try to do here every day, but especially celebrating her birthday.”

The two-day celebration held Wednesday and Saturday will aim to teach guests of all ages, but especially children.

“Mrs. Parks was adamant that children were the ones who were going to bring about the changes that we as a country needed,” Beisel explained. “She was very passionate in working with children, and so we tried to honor that legacy by continuing to educate students on the history, but how that is still important and relevant today.”

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Younger guests can participate in craft activities, story time, and commemorative cookies while supplies last. A 1950s Montgomery City bus will also be on site for visitors. Organizers hope the birthday celebration brings the community together, just as it was during the bus boycott in 1955.

“It took the community of people coming together to make the bus boycott successful,” told TrojanVision. “It wasn’t just Mrs. Parks and Dr. King, it was everybody working.”

The museum also launched a fundraising campaign to create a permanent exhibit that reveals the full depth of Park’s lifelong activism. The museum is now partnering with the Library of Congress to bring a significant portion of Park’s personal collection home to Alabama.

To support the Rosa Parks Museum’s expansion project, visit https://troy.scalefunder.com/cfund/project/46389.