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Cleveland Court Apartments 620–638

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
01001167

Opened
  
1943

Built
  
1943

Designated ARLH
  
March 30, 1989

Added to NRHP
  
29 October 2001

Cleveland Court Apartments 620–638

Location
  
620–638 Cleveland Ct., Montgomery, Alabama

Architect
  
Montgomery Housing Authority

Similar
  
Tankersley Rosenwald School, Jefferson Davis Hotel, Grace Episcopal Church, Old Ship African Methodist, Winter Place

The Cleveland Court Apartments 620–638 is a historic apartment building in the Cleveland Court Apartment Complex in Montgomery, Alabama. It is significant to the history of the modern Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Unit 634 was home to civil rights activist Rosa Parks, her husband Raymond, and her mother, Leona McCauley, during the Montgomery Bus Boycott from 1955 to 1956. The building was placed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on March 30, 1989 and the National Register of Historic Places on October 29, 2001.

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Cleveland Court Apartments 620–638 Wikipedia