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A forensic document examiner was hired to see if the scrapbook was authentic. A Museum conservator went to Montgomery to personally examine the bus. Convinced that this was the Rosa Parks bus, we decided to bid on the bus in the Internet auction. The bidding began at $50,000 on October 25, 2001, and went until 2:00 AM the next morning. Inside this bus on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a soft-spoken African-American seamstress, refused to give up her seat to a white man, breaking existing segregation laws. The flawless character and quiet strength she exhibited successfully ignited action in others. The Museum uses the bus to represent the particular story of Rosa Parks within the broader context of the Civil Rights movement. Visitors can board and sit on the bus, feel what it was like for Rosa Parks on that day, and hear an actual recounting of the event by Rosa Parks herself. Historic markers designate the site where Rosa Parks boarded the public bus and where she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger and move to the back. The Rosa Parks Museum, located at the site of Parks’ famous arrest, is centered on Parks’ story and its place in the Civil Rights Movement and features a restored The bus Rosa Parks made history on is at The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn Michigan According to the Henry Ford museum website, the Rosa Parks bus project received a It’s the story of the Rosa Parks bus—bus number 2857. The story of how the bus got from a factory in Pontiac, Michigan, to the streets of Montgomery, Alabama, to a mechanic’s field outside of Montgomery, and finally to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, has some surprising twists and turns. On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on this bus and was arrested for violating segregation law. Her arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which lasted for 381 days until segregation on public buses was repealed. Parks’ stance and the boycott were important events that raised awareness for the civil rights movement. The bus Parks made history in was put out of service in Montgomery in 1971. Eventually, it was put up for auction and the Henry Ford Museum was the highest bidder. Shoot an email to Steve The Internet auction house authenticated it by finding a scrapbook of the Montgomery bus manager, including a newspaper clipping of Parks’ arrest with the bus number written nearby. In 2001, the Henry Ford Museum purchased the bus at auction for $492,000. The museum restored the bus and put it on display. The bus identification number was not recorded in any official documents when Rosa Parks was arrested, so years later, many museums and organizations were searching for the bus, but no one was quite sure which bus it was. When bus #2857 was retired in the early 1970s, Roy H. Summerford of Montgomery bought it. At the time, company employees Inside this bus on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a soft-spoken African-American seamstress, refused to give up her seat to a white man, breaking existing segregation laws. The flawless character and quiet strength she exhibited successfully ignited action in others. For this, many believe Rosa Parks's act was the event that sparked the Civil Rights movement. Xavier, Yadina and Brad join Rosa Parks on the bus, where they learn that dark-skinned people like her have to sit at the back and give up their seats for wh The Montgomery city bus aboard which Rosa Parks defied segregation sat as a rusted storage shed before The Henry Ford acquired it in 2001. Today, the fully restored bus in Henry Ford Museum stands as an inspiring reminder of her courageous activism. Rosa Parks Museum Groups of 10 or more MUST schedule a tour slot prior to visiting the museum. Please call 334-241-8661 or email rosaparks@troy.edu to schedule. **The Rosa Parks Museum closes Monday through Friday from 12:00PM to 1:00PM for lunch. Our final admission beforehand is 11:00AM, and admission resumes at 1:00 each day.** Students will analyze Rosa Parks' evolving activism during the Black Freedom Movement using primary source sets created from the Library of Congress exhibit "Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words.” Students will use the evolving hypothesis strategy to answer the focus question. Sparking a Social Transformation. It’s one of the most famous moments in modern American civil rights history: On the chilly evening of December 1, 1955, at a bus stop on a busy street in the capital of Alabama, a 42-year-old seamstress boarded a segregated city bus to return home after a long day of work, taking a seat near the middle, just behind the front “white” section. The Rosa Parks Museum is located on the Troy University at Montgomery satellite campus, in Montgomery, Alabama. [1] It has information, exhibits, and some artifacts from the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott. This museum is named after civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who is known for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person on a city bus. [2] On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of going to the back of the bus, which was designated for African Americans, she sat in the front. The Montgomery Bus Boycott exhibit at the National Civil Rights Museum features a vintage city bus. Visitors can go inside the bus and sit next to a figure of Rosa Parks. County Connection honors Ms. Rosa Parks’ defiance of racial segregation laws while riding a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. Her courage forever changed public transportation and the course of American history. Note: You can find a commemorative sticker on each County Connection bus placed in honor of Rosa Parks, right in the area
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