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Re: Rosa Parks 1913-2005
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Thu, 3 Nov 2005 05:44:16 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
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Hi all,
Fifty years ago in a quiet act of bravery, Rosa Parks stood up for her rights
by sitting down.
Gallery (I’ll take
more pictures later and put them on my website; I just wanted to get this
posted today.)
Bruce
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Very nice Bruce!
Here in Detroit I’ve been watching the funeral services on local TV all day.
She lived most of the last 50 years in Detroit with her late husband Raymond.
She was an inspiration to all of us. Ironically THE BUS is also here in metro
Detroit. The Henry Ford Museum (America’s 2nd largest museum of Americana after
the Smithsonian) purchased THE BUS and restored it recently (they also have the
chair from Ford Theatre in which Lincoln was assassinated, and the limo in which
Kennedy was assassinated).
The Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village complex (now known simply as “The
Henry Ford”) is probably the most amazing collection of historic American
buildings and items found anywhere. Everything from the original Edison Menlo
Park complex to the Wright Brothers House & Bicycle Shop is here, along with the
homes of Henry Ford, Noah Webster and Harvey Firestone.
And now the Parks Bus has taken its’ place among the collections of the late
great Henry Ford.
December 1, 2005 (4 weeks from now), is the 50th anniversary date. I plan on
making a pilgrimage there in December.
Gary Istok
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| (...) Gary's right, and you can actually sit in the bus yourself, and even in the seat where Rosa Parks sat. I take my kids to the museum and the village several times a year and it never gets old. The village has many relocated historical (...) (18 years ago, 4-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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