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Rosa Parks

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  • Rosa Parks book shaped like a schoolbus
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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
  • a lime green and yellow bus with a white roof
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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.
  • Rosa Parks Visiting Mattox House in Greenfield Village, 1992 (Object ID: P.B.108917.7)
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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.
  • President Obama sitting in Rosa Parks Bus
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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.
  • The unrestored Rosa Parks bus, arriving at Henry Ford Museum.
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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.
  • Inside view of the Rosa Parks Bus green seats.
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    What If I Don’t Move to the Back of the Bus?

    Rosa Parks turned a single act of defiance into a defining moment of the modern American civil rights movement.
  • a lime green and yellow bus with a white roof
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    60th Anniversary of Rosa Parks’ Courageous Act

    In honor of the 60th anniversary of Rosa Parks' courageous act, we take a moment to reflect on her legacy. Read more at The Henry Ford blog.
  • A pop-up exhibit with various colorful printed artifacts about protests
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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.
  • Stamp of Rosa Parks, 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.
  • Close up view of the street stop at the top of the front of the exterior of the bus
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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.