On this day in 1955,

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6. The 1948 GM bus is displayed at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan

When President Obama visited Detroit on a campaign swing last year, he stopped by the museum and White House Photographer Pete Souza captured the President sitting in the bus--but, significantly, not in Rosa Parks' seat. The President took the seat behind...


Pete Souza / The White House

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/04/picture-of-the-day-obama-sits-on-the-rosa-parks-bus/256112/

“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,” Obama told donors at a subsequent event in suburban Detroit, according to a print pool reporter on scene.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/obama-sits-reflects-on-rosa-parks-bus/