Cops Rosa Parks Apartment -The Alabama complex which included the former flat of the civil rights icon and her husband have been ransacked by thieves looking for copper wires Monday.
A number of units were reportedly wrecked and stripped of the metal including cops Rosa Parks' apartment where she returned after her arrest for refusing to give up her seat to a white man in a Montgomery bus in December 1955.
Cops Rosa Parks apartment which is located in the Cleveland Court Housing Community, served as a mini-museum to her life. It was reportedly listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on March 30, 1989 and the National Register of Historic Places on October 29, 2001, the Live5News reported.
According to several reports about cops Rosa Parks apartment, the units' walls were ripped and counter tops were flipped in an apparent desperate search for copper wires by the thieves. Fortunately, not a single resident was living in the apartments at the time of the crime as the whole housing community was was under renovation.
Even cops Rosa Parks's apartment was not spared from the damage although some of the mementos in her life including her sewing machine and furnitures were still inside the unit.
Cops reportedly believe the crime took place over the weekend. The cops Rosa Parks apartment thefts were discovered by workers on Monday, said Sgt. Denise Barnes.
The civil rights legend resided in the cops Rosa Parks apartment from 1955 to 1956 together with her husband Raymond and her mother, Leona McCauley, the Montgomery Advertiser has learned. In the 1955 police report following her historic arrest on a Montgomery city bus, Parks had listed the 634 Cleveland Court apartment as her address.
Parks' refusal to give her public transportation seat to a white man in rebellion to a Montgomery law ignited a year-long bus boycott and turned into a lasting symbol of the U.S. Civil Rights movement, according to Daily Mail.
She and her husband eventually left the cops Rosa Parks apartment to settle in Detroit.
Parks died on Oct. 24, 2005 at the age of 92.
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