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President Barack Obama Sits On The Famed Rosa Parks Bus. President Barack Obama sits on the famed Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum following an event in Dearborn, Mich., April 18, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) Featured in the Following Photo Galleries: April 2012: Photo of the Day It’s been often remarked that Rosa Parks’ activism didn’t begin on that bus. Long before she made headlines, she had stood up for freedom, stood up for equality -- fighting for voting rights, rallying against discrimination in the criminal justice system, serving in the local chapter of the NAACP. During his trip to Detroit, yesterday, President Obama visited the Henry Ford Museum and had the opportunity to sit in the bus where in 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to make way for P resident Barack Obama celebrated the courage of civil rights icon Rosa Parks on Tuesday, sixty years after her momentous refusal to move from her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. President Barack Obama sits on the famed Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum following an event on April 18 in Dearborn, Mich. Pete Souza / The White House via Getty Images. Rosa Parks 'Helped Change America,' Obama Says At Statue and change the world," Obama said of the African-American woman who in 1955 refused to move to the back of a segregated bus in Obama Sits On Rosa Parks Bus Apr 19, 2012, 03:01 PM EDT | Updated Dec 6, 2017 President Barack Obama sat Wednesday for a moment inside the Montgomery, Ala., city bus where Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. President Obama stepped into the shoes of one of the civil rights movement’s earliest heroes this week when he boarded the bus on which Rosa Parks made her historic decision and sat in the same seat The museum displays the 1948 GM bus on which, in Montgomery City, Alabama, in December 1955, black seamstress Rosa Parks took a seat near the front and refused to move to the back. The incident At a campaign fundraiser earlier today at the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit, President Obama had a chance to sit and reflect inside the old Montgomery, Ala., bus on which Rosa Parks made history. “President Obama gave a speech in 2013 to dedicate a new statue honoring Rosa Parks, who was an American civil rights activist.” • “In 1955, Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her bus seat; 58 years later, President Obama gave a speech to commemorate a statue of Parks in the Capitol Building.” Rosa Parks (1913—2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. Her actions The coin is a replica of a 1955 Montgomery, Alabama bus token in the collection of The Henry Ford, created to commemorate Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus to a white man. Custodial History / Provenance The item was a gift from a member of the general public to President Barack Obama during the Obama Administration. It Activist Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott that partially ended racial segregation. U.S. President Barack Obama applauds after unveiling a statue of Rosa Parks during an unveiling Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents. Summary The actual bus on which Rosa Parks sat was made available for the public to board and sit in the seat that Rosa Parks refused to give up. [ 153 ] On February 4, 2,000 birthday wishes gathered from people throughout the United States were transformed into 200 graphics messages at a celebration held on her 100th Birthday at the Davis Theater for Rosa Parks' Bus . In 1955, African Americans were still required by a Montgomery, Alabama, city ordinance to sit in the back half of city buses and to yield their seats to white riders if the Rosa Parks launched the Montgomery bus boycott when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man. The boycott proved to be one of the pivotal moments of the emerging civil rights movement. For 13 months, starting in December 1955, the black citizens of Montgomery protested nonviolently with the goal of desegregating the city’s public buses. President Obama speaks at a ceremony dedicating a statue in honor of Rosa Parks at the U.S. Capitol. February 27, 2013. It’s been often remarked that Rosa Parks’s activism didn’t begin on that bus. Long before she made headlines, she had stood up for freedom, stood up for equality -- fighting for voting rights, rallying against discrimination in the criminal justice system, serving in the local chapter of the NAACP.
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