ROSA PARKS’ BUS TO BE AUCTIONED OFF LATER THIS MONTH

ROSA PARKS’ BUS TO BE AUCTIONED OFF LATER THIS MONTH

OAK BROOK, Ill. (Wireless Flash) – Would you pay $50,000 for a green and yellow bus that doesn’t run? What if it was the same bus Rosa Parks rode in when she declined to give up her seat to a white man on December 1, 1955? Although Parks’ decision started the modern civil rights movement, the bus has spent the last 30 years as an old tool shed on a farm near Montgomery, Alabama. The bus will be auctioned off October 25 by the MastroNet.com auction site and organizers want at least $50,000 for the civil rights souvenir. Although Parks has inspired songs by musical groups like the Neville Brothers and Out Kast, the bus won’t be turned into a Partridge Family-like tour vehicle because it needs at least $10,000 in repairs to make it street legal.

Tue 10-02-01