National Civil Rights Museum president leaves mark on site
by John Beifuss, Memphis Commercial Appeal, The Associated Press
Posted Jan 30, 2021 10:55 am EDT
Last Updated Jan 30, 2021 at 10:58 am EDT
MEMPHIS, Tenn. In November 2014, Terri Lee Freeman became president of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis.
Two years later, the Smithsonian Institution opened its much-heralded National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington.
The following year saw the arrival of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson.
In April of the next year came the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama.
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by Tonyaa Weathersbee, Memphis Commercial Appeal, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 12, 2020 12:01 am EDT
Last Updated Dec 12, 2020 at 12:12 am EDT
Noelle Trent, who serves as the director of interpretation, collections and education at the National Civil Rights Museum, poses for a photo Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020, in Memphis, Tenn., in the museum s combating Jim Crow gallery. (Max Gersh/The Commercial Appeal via AP)
JACKSON, Miss. In 1963, Margaret Walker’s neighbour, civil rights activist Medgar Evers, was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith, a white supremacist, in Jackson, Mississippi.
Then, 150 miles north of Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee.
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