The United States Immigration Station is a former government building located at 333 Mount Elliott Street in Detroit, Michigan. Until March 2024, it was known as the Rosa Parks Federal Building, and h
U.S. Immigration Station Detroit
North face of the building in 2013
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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American civil rights activist. She is best known for her 1955 refusal to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in defiance of Jim Crow racial segregati
United States Immigration Station
…was constructed in the rear of the building in 1964, at which time the main entrance was moved to face Mount Elliott. The building was designated the "Rosa Parks Federal Building" in 2005, and in 2014 received extensive interior renovations and updates. However, the "Rosa Parks Federal Building" designation was…
Parks in 1956
The No. 2857 bus on which Parks was riding before her arrest is now a museum exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum.
The seat layout on the bus where Parks sat, December 1, 1955
Police report on Parks, December 1, 1955, page 1