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National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel
Memphis, TN
Built around the site where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, the museum chronicles the American civil rights movement from slavery to the present.
Counter-Narrative
The myth this site refutes: that civil rights were granted by government. They were extracted through sustained, organized sacrifice.
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National Civil Rights Museum
Before & After This Era
← Before · Great Migration
→ After · Contemporary
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"Both connected to Martin Luther King Jr. & Ralph Abernathy"
"Both connected to Martin Luther King Jr. & Ralph Abernathy"
"Both connected to Martin Luther King Jr."