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A Culture of Resistance
The journey opens with the roots of the struggle — Slavery in America 1619–1861, and the resistance that never stopped.
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A Culture of Resistance
Slavery in America 1619–1861
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Assassination & Aftermath
Assassination & Aftermath is not just about what happened on April 4, 1968. The patterns that have emerged force us to reexamine…
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Freedom Award Gallery
The Freedom Award Gallery is designed to leave you with initiative in your own life as well as admiration. It sharpens your…
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Hope Is a Discipline
Hope Is a Discipline is an interactive exhibition that invites visitors to consider hope as an active practice shaped by collective action.…
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Making Change
Being Seen, Being Heard invites visitors to reflect on the power and significance of visibility, voice, and representation within the broader story…
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Movements: 1968 to Now
Movements: 1968 to Now shows how the justice has coalesced around numerous issues and events. This experience brings you face to face…
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Pillars of Justice
The Civil Rights Movement reshaped the nation. It also revealed the depth of the work still to be done. The Pillars of…
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Say Their Names
Say Their Names For centuries, Black Americans have faced violence rooted in bigotry in the form of slavery, lynching, and police brutality.…
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Standing Up by Sitting Down
Student Sit-Ins 1960
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The Poor People’s Campaign, Then and Now
The Poor People’s Campaign challenges you to see inequality through a different lens. It is not just a moment in history. It…
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The Year They Walked
Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955-1956
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We Are Prepared to Die
The Freedom Rides 1961
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What do we want?
Black Power
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Black Joy, In Spite Of...
Included with Museum Admission Too often, stories about Black life are framed through struggle, hardship, and harm. While those histories are real…
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Speaking Truth to Power
The Life of Bayard Rustin
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The Southern Heritage Classic
Celebrating 35 Years of an HBCU Memphis Tradition
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Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
January 31, 2016 for multi-year loan “Voices of the Civil Rights Movement” combines two video archives into one interactive exhibit available within…
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