AUGUST 31, 2017 // 19
Rosa Parks’ house may be
coa st w eeken d M ARK ETPLACE
returned to US from Germany
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BERLIN — Section by
section, American artist
Ryan Mendoza painstaking-
ly disassembled the small
wood-frame home of civil
rights icon Rosa Parks after
learning that the struggling
city of Detroit was going
to have it demolished.
He shipped it across the
Atlantic Ocean and rebuilt
it in the German capital of
Berlin, saving the home
and creating a new tourist
attraction.
The house has been up
in Berlin less than a year,
but after violence at a white
nationalist rally in Charlot-
tesville, Virginia, and the
growing call to remove Con-
federate monuments in the
United States, the New York
native said it’s now clear to
him that Parks’ house needs
to return soon to the U.S.
“It’s actually become a
necessity, as we see people
rising up and seeing things
for what they are,” he
said. “As Americans begin
to understand they have
to re-contextualize these
monuments, the Confederate
statues, there is a lack of
civil rights monuments to
balance things out.”
Parks, who died in 2005,
became a leading name in
the civil rights movement for
refusing in 1955 to give up
her seat on a bus to a white
passenger in Montgomery,
Alabama. She moved to
Detroit in 1957 to escape
death threats and stayed in
the house with her brother
and his family — crammed
into the tiny residence with
more than 15 people.
After the financial
crisis of 2008 and Detroit’s
dramatic decline, Parks’
home was abandoned and
put on a list for demolition.
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Trees stay close to the rebuilt house of Rosa Parks in Berlin. Parks’
house has been standing in the German capital for less than a
year, but now the American artist Ryan Mendoza who saved it
from destruction in Detroit says it’s time for it to return to the U.S.
Parks’ niece Rhea McCauley
instead bought it from the
city for $500 and donated
it to Mendoza for preserva-
tion. In 2016, he and others
took it carefully apart, then
rebuilt it on the lot in Berlin
where his studio and home
are.
Queen Yahna, a soul and
gospel singer from Phila-
delphia who now lives in
Berlin, performed for the
crowd at the house’s official
dedication in April. Visiting
the house this week, she
said it doesn’t matter to her
where the house is, so long
as Parks’ struggle is remem-
bered.
“The issue of racism is
going on, negative things are
going on and there are dif-
ferent things, positive, that
can be brought to light, not
just physical monuments,”
she said. “The spirit is more
important.”
But Mendoza said even
though the house is tucked
away on his lot, it still draws
curious onlookers daily —
including many Americans
— showing how important a
symbol it is.
“Imagine if the house
were on a public setting in a
prominent city in the U.S.?”
he said. “That’s an educa-
tional tool that shouldn’t be
denied the American people.
They have to know their
past.”
He said a foundation
has offered to help pay the
costs of moving it back to
the U.S., and he’s been in
talks with museums and a
university about putting it on
display, but there’s no time-
line yet on when the house
may return.
His dream would be
to see the derelict home
reconstructed on the lawn
of the White House with the
blessing of U.S. President
Donald Trump.
“Trump says that he’s
not a racist. This would be
a wonderful moment for
him to redeem himself in
the eyes of Americans,”
Mendoza said. “He wants
to embrace all of America’s
past. Why not embrace the
house that Rosa Parks once
lived in?”
McCauley, Parks’ niece
who still lives in Detroit,
told The Associated Press
that she would welcome the
home’s return to the U.S.
“We need all the help we
can get, in light of all current
events,” she said.
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