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- Celebrating Ninety: Collecting in the 2000s - We're celebrating our 90th birthday by looking, decade by decade, at significant additions to our collection. During the 2000s, we acquired the Rosa Parks Bus, a 4-H uniform, and 30 quilts made by Susan Allen Hunter.
- September 21, 2019
- Collections - article
Celebrating Ninety: Collecting in the 2000s
We're celebrating our 90th birthday by looking, decade by decade, at significant additions to our collection. During the 2000s, we acquired the Rosa Parks Bus, a 4-H uniform, and 30 quilts made by Susan Allen Hunter.
- Rosa Parks Bus before Restoration, outside Henry Ford Museum, September 12, 2002 - 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.
- September 12, 2002
- Collections - Artifact
Rosa Parks Bus before Restoration, outside Henry Ford Museum, September 12, 2002
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.