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The house where US civil rights activist Rosa Parks lived has not found a buyer at an auction in the United States. The two-storey wood-roofed building had already been valued at $ 3 million by the New York Guernsey auction house. At the auction in New York, however, no one offered the minimum bid of one million dollars.
According to the auction house, Parks had lived in the house with many other members of the family. She, her brother, sister-in-law and their 13 children shared the three bedrooms and a bath
Park refused to take his place on a bus for a white man in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. He has since become an icon of black American civil rights movement. As a result of racist hostility in Alabama Parks moved with her husband Raymond Montgomery to Detroit. She died in 2005.
The house was originally owned by Rosa Park's brother's family, Sylvester McCauley. Then, it was long abandoned and had to be demolished until Rosa Parks' niece, Rhea McCauley, bought it for $ 500. She tried to save him, eventually meeting the American artist Berliner Ryan Mendoza and donated it to him.
Mendoza shipped the house to Berlin and rebuilt it in 2017 on his property in the Wedding district, where hundreds of people watched, Earlier this year, the house then came back to the other side of the house. 39 Atlantic in the United States and spent some time at the prestigious Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Currently, it is stored in a lobby near New York. What happens at home is not clear.
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