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[QUOTE][B]Rosa Parks fled the American South for Detroit in the 1950s at the height of her civil rights struggle. Now the house where she sought asylum has itself found refuge in a city an ocean away: Berlin.
[/B]US artist Ryan Mendoza, who is based in the German capital, helped rescue the dilapidated two-storey structure from the wrecking ball and rebuilt it board by board in his garden. This week he will invite the public to have a look.
Mendoza, 45, says the house's odyssey holds up a mirror to two societies: his bitterly divided homeland grappling with the rise of President Donald Trump, and Germany, where more than a million people fleeing war and misery have sought asylum in the last two years.[/QUOTE]
[URL]https://www.thelocal.de/20170406/berlin-gives-refuge-to-rosa-parks-detroit-house[/URL]
Nice to have monuments and museums honouring civil rights activists. It makes you reflect on that period of American history.
Why didn't the US keep the house in shape? It's more part of their history than German history...
[QUOTE=Orki;52083584]Why didn't the US keep the house in shape? It's more part of their history than German history...[/QUOTE]
Detroit has other problems besides maintaining historic houses. Renovating a house is an expensive endeavor, and Detroit simply doesn't have enough money to properly renovate the house.
[QUOTE=Gnorm57;52083674]Detroit has other problems besides maintaining historic houses. Renovating a house is an expensive endeavor, and Detroit simply doesn't have enough money to properly renovate the house.[/QUOTE]
Sad but true, they can't even afford to maintain their schools. It's really depressing and what gets me the most is that nothing is really being done about it. Nobody seems to care.
[QUOTE=Orki;52083584]Why didn't the US keep the house in shape? It's more part of their history than German history...[/QUOTE]
Why would we? All she did was live there for a short time. The house has nothing to do with our history.
[QUOTE]Douglas Brinkley, an historian and Rosa Parks biographer, said the house was “not brimming with historical importance,” and added, “it’s simply a way station in Rosa Parks’s life.”[/QUOTE]
[URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/detroit-rosa-parks-house-ryan-mendoza.html"]NYTimes[/URL]
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