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The National Civil Rights Museum breaks ground for Legacy renovation
May 11, 2023 08:38 ET | National Civil Rights Museum
Memphis, TN, May 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel will host a ground-breaking ceremony on May 16 at 10 am for its Legacy Building and Founders Park...
Dr. Noelle Trent to
Dr. Noelle Trent to leave the National Civil Rights Museum
May 10, 2023 14:00 ET | National Civil Rights Museum
Memphis, TN, May 10, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- National Civil Rights Museum Director of Interpretation, Collections, and Education, Dr. Noelle Trent, announced she is leaving the museum to assume the...
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National Civil Rights Museum Hosts its 6th Ruby Bridges Reading Festival
May 09, 2023 08:00 ET | National Civil Rights Museum
Memphis, TN, May 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Civil Rights Museum is proud to partner with civil rights and literacy advocate Ruby Bridges for the sixth year to host the Ruby Bridges...
Harry Belafonte received Freedom Award
National Civil Rights Museum Statement Regarding the Passing of Harry Belafonte
April 25, 2023 13:28 ET | National Civil Rights Museum
Memphis, TN, April 25, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Civil Rights Museum joins the world in grieving the loss of a civil rights activist, cultural icon, and its 1999 Freedom Award honoree,...
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National Civil Rights Museum hosts Catalyst for Change Panel on Building Black Wealth
April 24, 2023 10:02 ET | National Civil Rights Museum
Memphis, TN, April 24, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On April 27, the National Civil Rights Museum is hosting a hybrid discussion, “Building Black Wealth: Past, Present, and Future,” to highlight the...
Remembering MLK on the 55th anniversary of his death
National Civil Rights Museum hosts virtual events, new exhibition, and hybrid commemoration on the 55th anniversary of MLK’s death
March 31, 2023 10:31 ET | National Civil Rights Museum
Memphis, TN, March 31, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel will present a hybrid commemoration in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life and legacy...
On the 55th annivers
On the 55th anniversary of MLK’s death, the National Civil Rights Museum debuts Memphis artists’ works as the first artistic responses to his death
March 28, 2023 16:14 ET | National Civil Rights Museum
Memphis, TN, March 28, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Waddell, Withers, and Smith: A Requiem for King is a multimedia exhibition by three Memphis-born artists opening at the National Civil Rights Museum...
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National Civil Rights Museum to host solution-seeking, national convening on police accountability and community building in a three-part series
March 16, 2023 13:18 ET | National Civil Rights Museum
Memphis, TN, March 16, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Civil Rights Museum will host the first of three hybrid, national convenings entitled “The Reckoning: Community Policing and...
Civil rights activists David Dennis Sr. and David Dennis Jr. collaborate on civil rights movement book.
National Civil Rights Museum presents book by civil rights father-son activists
January 26, 2023 13:28 ET | National Civil Rights Museum
Memphis, TN, Jan. 26, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Civil Rights Museum brings civil rights legend David J. Dennis, Sr. and his son David J. Dennis, Jr. to discuss their book, The Movement...
FREE KING DAY ADMISS
FREE KING DAY ADMISSION AT THE NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM
January 12, 2023 08:30 ET | National Civil Rights Museum
Memphis, TN, Jan. 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Civil Rights Museum is excited to host its first event of the year with King Day: An All-Day Celebration on January 16. The event is...