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That Guy · 10-27-2001, 05:22 PM

I just realized that the above link is not static, and will be different tomorrow. Here's the text:

"Compiled by Emily Quigley
Austin American-Statesman

Saturday, October 27, 2001

Museum buys icon of civil rights movement

A Michigan museum has paid $492,000 at an Internet auction for a bus that is said to be the one on which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man in 1955.

Steve Hamp, president of the Henry Ford Museum, called the bus "the most important artifact in civil rights history," even as some wondered if it is the actual vehicle.

Parks was fined $10 for violating a city ordinance when she refused to give up her seat. Her arrest set off a yearlong bus boycott and helped forge the civil rights movement. But no bus number was written down on police records when Parks was arrested, and there have been questions over the years as to whether it would be possible to identify the vehicle. "

10-27-2001, 05:22 PM	#3
That Guy He who reads, sometimes writes. Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: at the keyboard Posts: 791	I just realized that the above link is not static, and will be different tomorrow. Here's the text: "Compiled by Emily Quigley Austin American-Statesman Saturday, October 27, 2001 Museum buys icon of civil rights movement A Michigan museum has paid $492,000 at an Internet auction for a bus that is said to be the one on which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man in 1955. Steve Hamp, president of the Henry Ford Museum, called the bus "the most important artifact in civil rights history," even as some wondered if it is the actual vehicle. Parks was fined $10 for violating a city ordinance when she refused to give up her seat. Her arrest set off a yearlong bus boycott and helped forge the civil rights movement. But no bus number was written down on police records when Parks was arrested, and there have been questions over the years as to whether it would be possible to identify the vehicle. "