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Julie Hinds
Detroit Free Press
There is a wonderful close-up photo of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaking from a podium, holding on to it firmly as if he is leaning in to the enormous task ahead. of him.
In the new book “That They Lived: African Americans Who Changed the World,” that photo is paired with a portrait of Rochelle Riley’s grandson, Caleb, then 8, who is wearing a similar suit and tie and copying the civil rights icon s pose with an intensity beyond his years.
“When he did Martin Luther King and he just got right to the edge of the podium and did it, we were just like .,” says Riley, who wrote the text for the project, of the overwhelming emotion.
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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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