Two bricks from the chimney of the Rosa McCauley Parks family home.

On December 1st, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus, and sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a defining moment in the Civil Rights movement. Two years later, she fled the South, driven away by death threats and unemployment. After a short stint working at an inn at Hampton Institute in Virginia, Mrs. Parks headed to Detroit to be with her family. However, she had to accept the loss of a steady job to do so. "Auntie Rosa came [to Detroit] homeless, no money. Nobody wanted Auntie Rosa. People weren't running around trying to hire my aunt," says Rhea McCauley, Rosa Parks' niece. In Detroit Mrs. Parks found refuge in this home, which belonged to her brother Sylvester McCauley and his family. In this house on South Deacon Street, Mrs. Parks was safe from the threat of the South, but still very much affected by racism in what she called "the Northern promised land that wasn't."

The Rosa Parks family home is inextricably a part of the story of Mrs. Parks' migration north - an experience shared by many African-Americans. As Yonette Joseph writes in The New York Times, the house is "a portal to another time." A time when 6 million African Americans were in the process of moving from the South, escaping persecution and racism. For Mrs. Parks, migration provided freedom from the threats of the South, but also meant the difficulties that come with completely uprooting one's life. And, after her move, Mrs. Parks was exposed to the racism that still existed and had to be faced, even in the North. "It sort of asks us to see (Parks) outside of the South, it asks us to see northern segregation and northern inequality," says Jeanne Theoharis, author of "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" and professor at Brooklyn College. Despite Detroit's attempts to be racially progressive, Mrs. Parks saw that there was still much work to be done. She dedicated the rest of her life in Detroit to fighting for multiple civil rights and humanitarian causes.

Please note: the bricks featured in the image may not be the exact bricks sent to the buyer. FOB Michigan.

From the Family of Rosa Parks.