Rosa Parks house has made it's way to Berlin. 

Yes, as in Berlin, Germany.

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Her home is in the backyard of an American artist currently living in Germany. The reasoning? Detroit planned to tear down the home of the woman who is often credited with birthing the Civil Rights Movement after refusing to give up her bus seat for a white man in Alabama in 1955. 

Parks' niece, Rhea Rhea McCauley, found out and purchased the home for $500 while looking for ways to save it. She reached out to artist Ryan Mendoza, who happened to be in Detroit at the time. After they both appealed to Detroit’s mayor to protect the building, he made it clear he had no interest. Therefore, they went to Plan B which was to disassemble the home, packed it in shipping containers, transport it to Germany, and put it back together in an expensive operation that took several months.

McCauley looks at her aunt's home as something priceless that is being mistreated. Her partner in saving the house, Mendoza, is surprised by the lack of effort to save the home as well. "The Rosa Parks house should actually be a national monument and not a demolition project,” he told Deutsche Welle.

Mendoza also believes it’s apt that the house stands in a country that tore down a wall, and has left a nation planning to build a wall.

Hundreds of people reportedly turned out to see the official unveiling of the home in Berlin last week. McCauley also adds that she hopes one day the U.S. will “grow up” and ask for its treasure back.

How quickly we forget the importance of our history.