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Award-winning writer, photojournalist, and immigrant rights activist, David Bacon will discuss his most recent book The Right to Stay Home: How U.S. Policy Drives Mexican Migration as well as his book Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants. Highlighting the growing resistance of Mexican communities and the poverty that forces people to migrate […]

This year June 19 is the 150th Anniversary of Juneteenth, which marked the end of slavery in America. Two and a half years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, all slaves were not officially emancipated until General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas and issued General Order No. 3, freeing the last enslaved African […]

The Museum is joining Trolly Night with extended hours for the new exhibit Jazz & Blues: Threads of American Music from 6:30-8 pm in the State of Tennessee Gallery. Exhibit artist Leanna Lesley will be present. Live music will be provided by Hope Clayburn's Soul Scrimmage. The event is free and open to the public.

The National Civil Rights Museum has dedicated 2015 to voting rights with activities in commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Signed into law on August 6, 1965, the struggle for the ballot was hard fought in the face of Jim Crow laws, intimidation and violence. Throughout history, many have […]

The National Civil Rights Museum has dedicated 2015 to voting rights with activities in commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Signed into law on August 6, 1965, the struggle for the ballot was hard fought in the face of Jim Crow laws, intimidation and violence. Throughout history, many have […]

The Civil War and the emancipation revolution that it brought about were the central events in the history of the United States. Not only did the war end a two-hundred fifty year old institution on American soil, it also transformed the American understanding of rights. In 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that slaveholders […]

What's your perspective on My Vote, My Freedom? Let us know via your video entry of original poetry or spoken word. The theme is in recognition of the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 passage. Winners will be determined from the top 30 entries (10 per age category: 14-17; 18-25; 26-35) performing […]

The National Civil Rights Museum has dedicated 2015 to voting rights with activities in commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Signed into law on August 6, 1965, the struggle for the ballot was hard fought in the face of Jim Crow laws, intimidation and violence. Throughout history, many have […]

Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The parade begins at City Hall (125 N. Main), down Main Street to the For more information, contact The Arc Mid-South at(901) 327-2473

The National Civil Rights Museum has dedicated 2015 to voting rights with activities in commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Signed into law on August 6, 1965, the struggle for the ballot was hard fought in the face of Jim Crow laws, intimidation and violence. Throughout history, many have […]

The National Civil Rights Museum has dedicated 2015 to voting rights with activities in commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Signed into law on August 6, 1965, the struggle for the ballot was hard fought in the face of Jim Crow laws, intimidation and violence. Throughout history, many have […]

The 2015 Association of African American Museums pre-conference workshop is a private art collection tour at the beautiful home of former NBA player, Elliot Perry, and his wife Kimberly. Take a personal tour with the Perrys as they highlight what drove them to shift their focus to contemporary art, recant stories about the artists, their […]