Rosa Parks Bus before Restoration, outside Henry Ford Museum, September 12, 2002
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This bus, the site of Rosa Parks's stand against segregation laws, sat as a rusted storage shed before The Henry Ford acquired it and began a full restoration. Parks's act of defiance on December 1, 1955, sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which helped to ignite the Civil Rights Movement. Today, the restored bus survives as a reminder of her courageous activism.
This bus, the site of Rosa Parks's stand against segregation laws, sat as a rusted storage shed before The Henry Ford acquired it and began a full restoration. Parks's act of defiance on December 1, 1955, sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which helped to ignite the Civil Rights Movement. Today, the restored bus survives as a reminder of her courageous activism.
Artifact
Negative (Photograph)
Subject Date
12 September 2002
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
N.B.115697.21A
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Technique
Chromogenic processes
Color
Multicolored
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