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Rosa Parks' home displayed in Italy as US race tensions rise

by Associated Press
| September 15, 2020 12:27 AM

NAPLES, Italy (AP) — The run-down, paint-chipped Detroit house where U.S. civil rights icon Rosa Parks took refuge after her historic bus boycott is going on display in Italy in a setting that couldn’t be more incongruous: the imposing central courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples.

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