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According to the Henry Ford museum website, the Rosa Parks bus project received a whopping $205,000 through the Save America’s Treasures Program to help assist the restoration. A Michigan public act established Rosa Parks Day, celebrated on the first Monday following her February 4 birthday. Rosa Parks was 92 years old when she died in her Detroit home on October 24, 2005. The front seats of city buses in Detroit and Montgomery were adorned with black ribbons in the days preceding her funeral. A vibrant exploration of genius in all its forms, Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation allows you to experience the strides of America’s greatest minds while fully immersing yourself in their stories. Step inside the bus where Rosa Parks took a stand by taking a seat. According to the Henry Ford museum website, the Rosa Parks bus project received a whopping $205,000 through the Save America’s Treasures Program to help assist the restoration. 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. Tags: Local 4 News at 11, Wayne County, News, MI Town, Michigan, All About Michigan DEARBORN, Mich. – The bus on which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat is a symbol of her defiance that Email the Rosa Parks Museum at rosaparks@troy.edu. Phone Numbers: Tour Reservations: 334-241-8661; Gift Shop: 334-241-8616; Museum Information: 334-241-8615; Children's Wing: 334-241-8702 ; Location . Museum: 252 Montgomery Street, Montgomery, AL 36104 Children's Wing: 220 Montgomery Street, Montgomery, AL 36104 The Rosa Parks (McCauley) and Raymond Flat, in Detroit, Michigan, was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. The building is significant as the home of civil rights icon Rosa Parks, who lived in the first floor flat with her husband Raymond from 1961 to 1988. Students in front of the Rosa Parks Bus (photo by Kira Kessler) The Henry Ford Museum acquired the bus on which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on December 1, 1955, in 2001. The bus was verified thanks to a scrapbook made by Charles H. Cummings, the Montgomery Bus Station Manager, during the Montgomery Bus Boycott. 2. Rosa Parks’ Bus. On December 1, 1955, a tired, soft-spoken African American seamstress made history by simply refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. Visitors to the Henry Ford can climb aboard Rosa Parks’ bus and relive a pivotal moment in the American Civil Rights movement. 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. 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. Michigan is home to several sites and artifacts such as the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in downtown Detroit, the Rosa Parks Bus at the Henry Ford Museum, and the Motown Museum which showcase Black history in our local communities. Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman Who Changed a Nation by Gregory J. Reed and Rosa Parks; Rosa Parks by Rosa Parks; She Would Not Be Moved by Herbert R. Kohl; Boycott (2001) Selma (2014) You can also visit the Rosa Parks Museum at Troy University. Rosa Parks Day is officially celebrated in several states, including The Rosa Parks Museum is located on the Troy University at Montgomery satellite campus, in Montgomery, Alabama. 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. Museum Rosa Parks Bus 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. At The Henry Ford Museum, step into a piece of history from the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement as you tour the Rosa Parks Bus—the very bus in which Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up for a white man in 1955. Since I had never been to Detroit, or the Henry Ford Museum before, the only thing I knew at all was that the Rosa Parks bus was there in the museum. But I didn’t know secrets from the Rosa Parks story, or that this bus was found rotting away in someone’s backyard before it was fully restored for the museum! Photo from the Honolulu House Museums in South Central Michigan Ella Sharp Museum of Art and History. Where: 3225 4th St, Jackson, MI 49203 Why You Should Go: In Jackson, Michigan Ella Sharp was a social advocate for residents of the city and now her former home has become the Ella Sharp Museum of Art and History. According to the Henry Ford museum website, the Rosa Parks bus project received a whopping $205,000 through the Save America’s Treasures Program to help assist the restoration. 2003 at the
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