Rosa Parks Bus in Montgomery, Alabama, 2000-2001, before Acquisition by The Henry Ford
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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.
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
Digital image
Subject Date
2000-2001
Creators
On Exhibit
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
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