Virtual Visit - National Civil Rights Museum

Panorama of Lorraine Motel, site of Martin Luther King, Jr's assassination, as well as the National Civil Rights Museum (Memphis, Tennessee).

As we have learned, the Civil Rights Movement gained momentum and achieved many successes during the 1950s and 1960s. The movement for equality and full participation of African Americans in society was lead by a variety of leaders and took place in numerous locations. American society was changing rapidly as Jim Crow laws were removed from the books.

The National Civil Rights Museum is located in Memphis, Tennessee. It is housed in the Lorraine Motel where in 1968 the most prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement, and its most effective champion of non-violence, Martin Luther King was gunned down. The assassination of King shook the nation, but his dream lives on. The location of the National Civil Rights Museum was chosen to not only remember what happened at the Lorraine Motel, but to help tell the story of the Civil Rights Movement and educate future generations of the struggle against discrimination.

Click here to visit the National Civil Rights Museum.

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