DETROIT, July 7 (UPI) -- Detroiters are lining up to see a traveling exhibit by the Smithsonian Institution chronicling the U.S. civil rights movement and its heroine Rosa Parks.
Parks, who died on Oct. 24, 2005 at 92, was the African-American seamstress who refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated Montgomery, Ala., bus Dec. 1, 1955.
The exhibit called, "381 Days: The Montgomery Bus Boycott Story," tells with photographs, paintings and video the story of how the civil rights movement led by a young preacher named Martin Luther King Jr. broke the back of "Jim Crow" segregation in the U.S. South.
The exhibit traces the history of black Americans from the 19th century to the Voting Rights Act, and invites visitors to write their own stories for an archive that may be published in the future, the Detroit Free Press reported.
Parks left Alabama after the bus boycott and moved to Detroit, where she worked in the office of Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich.
The exhibit runs through July 16 at the Detroit Historical Museums & Society.
