The National Park Service added the Parks Flat and Shrine of the Black Madonna to the National Register of Historic Places on Friday, noting the sites importance to the Civil Rights Movement and the African American Experience in 20th Century Detroit.
Rosa Parks, well-known for her pivotal role in the civil rights movement, died in her Detroit apartment at 92. Now, her former home, located in the Virginia Park Historic District, is nationally honored, and it holds most of its 20th century integrity.
Parks home, built in 1917, is located in one of the first neighborhoods in Detroit open to middle-class Black people post World War II.