Cleveland Court Apartments

November 7, 2018

Cleveland Court Apartments features a historic marker, which describes Rosa L. Parks’ arrest and subsequent journey to becoming the “mother of the civil rights movement.”


The building that houses apartments 620-638 of this Montgomery Housing Authority apartment complex was Rosa and Raymond Parks’ Montgomery residence when Rosa Parks brought about the Montgomery bus boycott by refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. The family moved to Detroit in 1957.


The red brick complex was built by the U.S. Housing Administration in the early 1940s and also bears historic markers from the state of Alabama and the city of Montgomery. Being on the National Register makes the building eligible for federal funding and requires review of any federally funded project that would alter or destroy the structure.

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