7/6/2023 0 Comments Parks busThey had to determine if the bus, which had been rusting in an Alabama field for 30 years and was now for sale, was truly bus 2857. Then click back here, because there’s more.įorum staff interviewed Pretzer and his colleague Malcolm Collum, who was the senior conservator at the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village in 2001 when the bus came up for auction. Pretzer, who was the curator at the Henry Ford Museum responsible for the research, acquisition, restoration, and interpretation of the Rosa Parks bus between 20. If you aren’t familiar with it, stop reading now and go to the excellent article in American Heritage magazine by William S. The story of how the bus got from a factory in Pontiac, Michigan, to the streets of Montgomery, Alabama, to a mechanic’s field outside of Montgomery, and finally to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, has some surprising twists and turns. It’s the story of the Rosa Parks bus-bus number 2857. It’s a story of meticulous research and tough questions with no clear answers. It’s a story of midnight bids and destroyed documents.
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