Rosa Parks Bus in Montgomery, Alabama, 2000-2001, before Acquisition by The Henry Ford

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Artifact Overview

Notes in a scrapbook kept by a Montgomery City bus lines manager helped The Henry Ford confirm that bus #2857 was the site of Rosa Parks's 1955 stand against segregation laws. The Henry Ford acquired bus #2857, then a rusted storage shed, in 2001. Today, the fully restored bus in Henry Ford Museum survives as a reminder of Parks's courageous activism.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Digital image

Subject Date

2000-2001

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

2014.DS.1.11

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Legendary Auctions.

Technique

Digital imaging

Color

Multicolored