President Obama pays tribute to Rosa Parks at Michigan fundraiser, sits on historic bus
President Obama gave tribute to Rosa Parks during a campaign stop in Michigan on Wednesday, taking time to sit on the historic bus where the civil rights heroine refused to give up her seat.
On Thursday, Macon Phillips, the White House's director of new media, tweeted out a powerful photo of Obama sitting alone on the bus, looking out of a window.
The vehicle is currently at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, where Obama was holding a fundraiser.
"I just sat in there for a moment and pondered the courage and tenacity that is part of our very recent history, but is also part of that long line of folks who sometimes are nameless, oftentimes didn't make the history books, but who constantly insisted on their dignity, their share of the American dream," the country's first black President said.
Parks, who passed away in 2005 at the age of 92, refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955 — an act that helped spark the civil rights movement.
The trip to Michigan was Obama's second trip to the swing state this year.
After attending the museum event where about 600 people attended for $250 a pop, he headed to a smaller, 47-person fundraiser at Bingham Hills.
On Thursday, Macon Phillips, the White House's director of new media, tweeted out a powerful photo of Obama sitting alone on the bus, looking out of a window.
The vehicle is currently at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, where Obama was holding a fundraiser.
"I just sat in there for a moment and pondered the courage and tenacity that is part of our very recent history, but is also part of that long line of folks who sometimes are nameless, oftentimes didn't make the history books, but who constantly insisted on their dignity, their share of the American dream," the country's first black President said.
Parks, who passed away in 2005 at the age of 92, refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955 — an act that helped spark the civil rights movement.
The trip to Michigan was Obama's second trip to the swing state this year.
After attending the museum event where about 600 people attended for $250 a pop, he headed to a smaller, 47-person fundraiser at Bingham Hills.
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