DEARBORN (WWJ) — The Henry Ford is commemorating an important moment in Civil Rights history.
Dec. 1 is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white man, leading to her arrest and the start of the Montgomery bus boycott.
The museum is the permanent home of the bus. It has been incorporated into a larger exhibition highlighting defining moments of United States history. “With Liberty and Justice for All” features an engraved copy of the Declaration of Independence, the chair Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in and a banner from the Suffrage Movement…