Rosa Parks’ home displayed in Italy as US race tensions rise

The run-down, paint-chipped Detroit house where US civil rights activist Rosa Parks took refuge after her historic bus boycott is going on display in Italy.

The setting could not be more incongruous – the imposing central courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples.

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