Rosa Parks

Air Date
February 29, 2012
Donna Braden, The Henry Ford's Curator of Public Life, discusses the simple, courageous act of protest by Rosa Parks, and her subsequent arrest, which led to a city-wide bus boycott that lasted 381 days. Her act gave African Americans a new sense of pride and purpose and inspired non-violent protests in other cities. Many consider her singular act of protest to be the event that sparked the Civil Rights movement.

About the Innovator

Toshiko Mori Interview Transcript
Architect

Throughout her career as a practicing architect and educator, Toshiko Mori has pursued a technical interest in the properties of materials, and especially synthetic materials, in addition to her concerns for purity of line, visual lightness and thermal performance.

Why She Innovates

As an architect, Toshiko Mori has always taken a personal delight in discovering new properties and potentials in materials. Whether designing exhibitions, houses or institutional projects such as the Visitor Center for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo, New York, she enjoys a process that combines intuition with the rigor of research.

Toshiko Mori Interview Highlights Transcript

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I would say every architect that I know is a philosopher on his or her own.

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Rosa Parks

29 Dec, 09:52 AM
Donna Braden, The Henry Ford's Curator of Public Life, discusses the simple, courageous act of protest by Rosa Parks, and her subsequent arrest, which led to a city-wide bus boycott that lasted 381 days. Her act gave African Americans a new sense of pride and purpose and inspired non-violent protests in other cities. Many consider her singular act of protest to be the event that sparked the Civil Rights movement.