Rosa Parks' Detroit home dismantled for third time, returning to US

The Detroit home of civil rights icon Rosa Parks, which was saved from demolition by artist Ryan Mendoza in 2016, is being dismantled for the third time to return to the United States. Mendoza had purchased the abandoned house from Parks' niece Rhea McCauley for $500, disassembled it, and shipped it to Berlin, where he rebuilt it in his garden and staged daily sound performances featuring a radio interview with Parks. Now, with funding from the Nash Family Foundation, the house will be shipped back to the US, where Mendoza hopes it will become a monument to Parks' legacy. Parks lived in the house with her brother and his family from 1957 after escaping death threats following her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, an act that sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott led by Martin Luther King Jr. and led to the 1956 Supreme Court ruling against segregation on public transport. Parks died in Detroit in 2005.