Yesterday I sat in one of the most famous buses in American history, the Rosa Parks bus. And yes, it’s the actual Montgomery, Alabama bus where Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man in December 1955.
The bus is part of the With Liberty and Justice for All exhibit of the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
For over 30 years, the bus sat in a field before it was sold on Ebay and bought for $427,919 by The Henry Ford, where curators restored the bus its original state.
Parks’ quiet act of protest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and was one of many events that spurred on the civil rights movement in the United States.
