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- Quiet & Loud Protest - Protest can be both loud and quiet. Prints by Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., and Corita Kent, as well as items related to Angela Davis, showcase how artist-activists have used graphics to demand change.
- February 17, 2022
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Quiet & Loud Protest
Protest can be both loud and quiet. Prints by Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., and Corita Kent, as well as items related to Angela Davis, showcase how artist-activists have used graphics to demand change.
- A Rosa Parks Baseball?: Inspiring Curt Flood's Battle with Major League Baseball - Learn how Curt Flood took on racism and injustice in Major League Baseball, the toll this work had on him, and how he turned his life around—and met a civil rights icon.
- February 03, 2022
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A Rosa Parks Baseball?: Inspiring Curt Flood's Battle with Major League Baseball
Learn how Curt Flood took on racism and injustice in Major League Baseball, the toll this work had on him, and how he turned his life around—and met a civil rights icon.
- Just Added to Our Digital Collections: Rosa Parks Bus Restoration - We’ve just digitized a couple dozen photos of the Rosa Parks Bus before and during its 2002 restoration. The bus had been left in a field and used as a storehouse for decades, leading to significant condition issues.
- July 29, 2014
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Just Added to Our Digital Collections: Rosa Parks Bus Restoration
We’ve just digitized a couple dozen photos of the Rosa Parks Bus before and during its 2002 restoration. The bus had been left in a field and used as a storehouse for decades, leading to significant condition issues.
- The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks - Check out our book review of Jeanne Theoharis’ The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks--an exceptional work that offers real history beyond the myth of Parks as a tired seamstress.
- February 04, 2014
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Check out our book review of Jeanne Theoharis’ The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks--an exceptional work that offers real history beyond the myth of Parks as a tired seamstress.
- Curating & Preserving The Rosa Parks Bus - Learn how the bus on which Rosa Parks sat that day in 1955 was restored — going from a discarded relic in an Alabama field to one of the most popular artifacts in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation.
- January 01, 2015
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Curating & Preserving The Rosa Parks Bus
Learn how the bus on which Rosa Parks sat that day in 1955 was restored — going from a discarded relic in an Alabama field to one of the most popular artifacts in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation.
- Presidents, Artifacts, and Taking a Seat in History - Hear from a long-time member of The Henry Ford what a recent photograph of President Barack Obama sitting on the Rosa Parks Bus means to her.
- May 22, 2012
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Presidents, Artifacts, and Taking a Seat in History
Hear from a long-time member of The Henry Ford what a recent photograph of President Barack Obama sitting on the Rosa Parks Bus means to her.
- National Day of Courage - On February 4, The Henry Ford is celebrating what would have been Rosa Parks’ 100th birthday with a National Day of Courage. Find out what's in store.
- January 22, 2013
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National Day of Courage
On February 4, The Henry Ford is celebrating what would have been Rosa Parks’ 100th birthday with a National Day of Courage. Find out what's in store.
- Segregated Travel and the Uncommon Courage of Rosa Parks - On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a soft-spoken African American seamstress, was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
- February 05, 2018
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Segregated Travel and the Uncommon Courage of Rosa Parks
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a soft-spoken African American seamstress, was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
- History Icons: The Rosa Parks Bus - Learn how we acquired and restored the bus on which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat.
- April 19, 2012
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History Icons: The Rosa Parks Bus
Learn how we acquired and restored the bus on which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat.
- Be an Innovator - like Rosa Parks - In honor of Rosa Parks’ 100th birthday and our Day of Courage celebration earlier this year, the education team at The Henry Ford has developed a special educational activity book for children that focuses on social innovation and the way the civil r
- May 21, 2013
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Be an Innovator - like Rosa Parks
In honor of Rosa Parks’ 100th birthday and our Day of Courage celebration earlier this year, the education team at The Henry Ford has developed a special educational activity book for children that focuses on social innovation and the way the civil r