needed to be engaging to a younger generation. reporter: nearly $30 million was raised to give the civil rights history displayed here a face-lift. design teams and architects gave exhibits a state-of-the-art and vibrant feel. it s automated. it s high touch, multi-user. you ll be a part of history before you leave. you ll feel it. reporter: dozens of scholars and researcherses focused on giving visitors a complete history. not just king and rosa parks. but the everyday people involved, and the lesser-known named, such as ella baker and russ tin. they re the many faces of the civil rights movement and we need to make sure that deeper story is being told. reporter: museum leadership tells me the new exhibits and all of the renovations was a move they just had to make in order to keep the national civil rights museum relevant for years to come. new exhibits focus on the transatlantic slave trade as a foundation of the struggle for freedom and what would become
versus the foreign how we pay attention as you said, ed, to what we have here, the resources needed here. can we take care of home without paying, you know, obesence again to a war machinery that would again have us attack. the conservatives don t mind here mr. obama, you know, dropping a bomb in syria but don t want to deploy diplomacy and don t want to look at other preventive of measures that might be deployed before having to go to that route. joy, what would dr. king say about going to syria? it s interesting some of the clips that you played because i m here at the commemoration of the march on washington. and at that time, in the early 1960s, the momentum toward war was also happening including in congress at the same time we were contemplating civil rights and voting rights and all those other things. and you had a passivist in russ tin that organize this had march on washington. then we had going forward to