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Rosa Parks Library and Museum Children's Wing Opening
February 17, 2006
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Dr. Cameron Martindale, senior vice chancellor of advancement and external relations, addresses members of the media during a Feb. 2 luncheon briefing on the Troy University Rosa Parks Library and Museum’s Children’s Wing. The briefing was followed by a tour of the new wing, located adjacent to the existing museum. |
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| Ray White, interim vice chancellor of the Montgomery Campus and project manager of the Troy University Rosa Parks Library and Museum’s Children’s Wing, looks over the “Time Circuits” outside the “Cleveland Avenue Time Machine.” |
Passengers on board the “Cleveland Avenue Time Machine” at the Rosa Parks Library and Museum’s Children’s Wing are greeted by Mr. Rivets, a robotic bus driver who pilots the oversized replica of a 1950s era Montgomery city bus through time to visit important events in the American civil rights movement. The Time Machine, located on the wing’s first floor, is the centerpiece of the more than $5 million facility. |
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| Video presentations guide visitors to the Troy University Rosa Parks Library and Museum’s Children’s Wing through several key events in the American civil rights movement leading up to the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. The video presentations are a part of the wing’s Cleveland Avenue Time Machine, an oversized replica of a 1950s era Montgomery city bus. |
Panels featuring a timeline of key events and heroes of the American civil rights movement line the second-floor walls of the Troy University Rosa Parks Library and Museum’s new Children’s Wing. |
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| Ray White, interim vice chancellor of the Montgomery Campus and project manager of the Troy University Rosa Parks Library and Museum’s Children’s Wing, explains the research capabilities of the wing’s computer centers located on the second floor of the building. |
“The Cleveland Avenue Time Machine,” an oversized replica of a 1950s era Montgomery city bus, will take visitors to the Troy University Rosa Parks Library and Museum’s Children’s Wing back in time to the early “Jim Crow” era. During this “trip through time,” visitors, through a series of video presentations, will come to understand how African-Americans were treated and how this treatment ultimately led to the Civil Rights Movement. |
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| The Troy University Rosa Parks Library and Museum’s Children’s Wing was designed and developed as an extension to the existing Rosa Parks Museum in an effort to continue to preserve the history of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and those who participated in the “event that changed the world.” It also allows Troy University an opportunity to expand on this history and provide both children and adults who visit the opportunity to gain more extensive information about the Bus Boycott and events leading up to the Boycott. The more than $5 million project was funded through two matching federal grants from the Department of Transportation and from the Department of Interior. The remaining funds came from a City of Montgomery Community Development Block Grant, a gift of building and land from the Homebuilders’ Association of Alabama and other private financial and in-kind donations. |
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