Historical Feature
By Herb Hilliard Chair, Museum Board of Directors Terri Lee Freeman answered the call to lead the National Civil Rights Museum in November 2014. She arrived just a few months after the museum’s most expansive renovation.
Statement / Announcement
Museum Statement Regarding the Insurrection at Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021 Dr. King once said, “We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.” Words matter. Leadership matters.
Historical Feature
I write this letter today because I am both exhausted and frustrated. I can only imagine what Dr. King was feeling when he wrote his Letter from a Birmingham Jail. I'm angry at a nation that I love but doesn’t seem to…
Program Write-up
Ain’t gonna hurt nobody to get on down! (Brick Summer’s here and the time is right for dancing in the street) Martha and The Vandellas This is how we do it It’s Friday night and I feel alright The party’s here on the…
Historical Feature
“Freedom has never been free.” - Medgar Evers “We who believe in freedom cannot rest” - Ella Baker “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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As he approached the podium, Bayard Rustin was determined and elated. He expected about 100,000 marchers to converge at the Washington Monument on August 28, 1963. To his delight, approximately 250,000 people cheered as…
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“Don’t let anybody tell you what to do, be who you want to be.” - Marsha P. Johnson “We are people, of the mighty Mighty people of the sun.” - Earth Wind & Fire This week’s theme is Pride & Identity.
Program Write-up
The National Civil Rights Museum Celebrates Black Music Month Music has been intrinsically linked with the Civil Rights Movement and African American history. Our celebration of Black Music Month began as a way to…
Historical Feature
By Terri Lee Freeman, Museum President I have always looked at the glass as half full as opposed to empty. But even so, I consider myself more of a pragmatist than an optimist. As an African American woman, I’ve…
Historical Feature
Just as 9/11 defined the new millennium, the novel coronavirus will certainly be the story of the decade. The global pandemic has caused a devastating public health crisis, initiated a global economic disaster, and in…
Historical Feature
Over the summer of 1961, 329 people from across the country, both black and white, boarded buses and headed south. The Freedom Rides set out to test federal law banning segregation in bus and train terminals across the…
From the Collection
White columns guide you when entering the Brown vs Board of Education exhibition. On the right are pews and a short video recapping the world-changing U.S. Supreme Court decision on May 17, 1954, 66 years ago this week.