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Black History Month: 12 Facts You Didn’t Know About Rosa Parks

12. The Bus Where Parks Sat Is Now in a Museum

12. The Bus Where Parks Sat Is Now in a Museum
Rosa Parks’ historic Montgomery bus, restored and displayed at The Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn.

The bus where Rosa Parks made her historic stand is preserved and displayed at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. This 1948 General Motors bus, known as Bus 2857, was restored to its 1955 appearance and is part of the museum’s “With Liberty and Justice for All” exhibition. Visitors can board the bus to experience the setting of Parks’ courageous act, which ignited the Civil Rights Movement (thehenryford.org).

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