Rosa Parks Collection to Be Sold to Settle Estate

A collection of thousands of Rosa Parks’ personal items, together valued at upwards of $10 million, will be sold by Guernsey's auction house, the AP reports. The sale is part of a settlement  between her foundation and her nieces and nephews, who challenged her will shortly after her death in 2005.

The collection, expected to go to a museum or university, includes letters, papers, and the hat she was said to be wearing when she famously declined to give her bus seat to a white man. The materials would change the mind of “anyone who views Rosa Parks as a mild, meek woman who for a brief instant stepped out of the shadows,” says the auction company’s head. (More Rosa Parks stories.)