 Henry Ford Museum [A]
20900 Oakwood
Blvd., Dearborn
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One of the newest and most
inspiring exhibits at the Henry Ford Museum, With Liberty and Justice for All, tells of the trials, tribulations and triumphs of
America's fight for freedom from the Declarations of Independence through
civil rights. Exhibits include rare
and iconic artifacts from the Museum’s collections, including one of the few
surviving copies of the Declaration of Independence, George Washington’s camp
chest and bed, a hand-lettered copy of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution
declaring freedom for slaves, the chair in which Abraham Lincoln was sitting
when he was assassinated, and the bus on which Rosa Parks was riding in
December 1955
when she made her historic stand for civil rights.
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 Greenfield
Village [B]
20900 Oakwood
Blvd., Dearborn
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Travel back in time to seven
historic districts offering the sights, sounds, and settings of America's
past. A steam locomotive transports
you through this 90-acre time machine and from one town to the next. Walk through the Hermitage Slave Quarters,
the actual dwellings of two slave families on the Hermitage Plantation near
Savannah, Georgia. And visit the building
modeled after the Missouri slave cabin where George Washington Carver was
born.
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