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December 12, 2023 08:00 ET | Source: National Civil Rights Museum

Museum brings civil rights leaders’ portraiture in Templeton exhibition

Memphis,TN, Dec. 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Civil Rights Museum has opened a new exhibition, Lest We Forget… Images of the Black Civil Rights Movement, on display until May 6, 2024....
June 30, 2023 16:22 ET | Source: National Civil Rights Museum

Museum Statement on Supreme Court Affirmative Action Decision

Memphis, TN, June 30, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it...
April 27, 2023 16:20 ET | Source: The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change

The King Center, Hulu Dedicate the Coretta Scott King Monument, Meditation Garden on her 96th Birthday

Atlanta, Ga., April 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, The King Center and Hulu hosted a ceremony to unveil The Coretta Scott King Monument and The Coretta Scott King Peace and Meditation Garden on...
October 12, 2022 15:11 ET | Source: Westmont College

The Shaping of the Dream

Santa Barbara, California, Oct. 12, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Clayborne Carson, the world-renowned and acclaimed Martin Luther King Jr. scholar and director of the King Papers Project, speaks at...
May 02, 2022 15:51 ET | Source: National Civil Rights Museum

National Civil Rights Museum debuts Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition on the history of the Poor People’s Campaign

Memphis, TN, May 02, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Civil Rights Museum, a Smithsonian Affiliate, will launch the national tour of the Solidarity Now! 1968 Poor People’s Campaign exhibition...