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 doesnt 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 wont 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