Black History: Special Delivery!!
Black History: Special Delivery!!
A simple, but powerful declaration,
“No”
-Rosa Parks
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Black History: Special Delivery!!
Black Mail Fast Fact: The actual bus that Rosa Parks rode on December 1, 1955 (which helped launch the Montgomery Bus Boycott) sat in a field for 30 years in Alabama before it was restored to its original condition. The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan bought the bus through an auction for $492,000 in 2001 and then had it restored at an additional cost of $300,000 The restoration took place in Southfield, MI and was paid for by government grants (Save America’s Treasures Grant). The bus remains on display at The Henry Ford Museum
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I’d See The Bus Pass Every Day……..
But To Me, That Was A Way of Life…..
We Had No Choice But To Accept What Was The Custom.
The Bus Was Among The First Ways I Realized There Was A Black World And A White World.
-Rosa Parks
What proverbial “bus” (injustice/discrimination/racism) is passing us by (on a daily basis)……that we are just accepting as a ‘way of life’?
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