Tag: Stories

## Migration reference **Live site:** https://civilrightsmuseum.org/story/integrating-st-augustine-beach/ **Export file:** /www/ncrmdev_939/vc-copy-export/ncrm-media-2943-integrating-st-augustine-beach.md **Old post ID:** 2943 > **Status:** Essay-style voice entry — reference copy below for block editor — Subtitle: Purcell Conway Summary: Civil Rights Activist Purcell Conway shares his account of the demonstrations to integrate a Florida beach, and the violence that ensued. Your browser does not […]

## Migration reference **Live site:** https://civilrightsmuseum.org/story/my-story/ **Export file:** /www/ncrmdev_939/vc-copy-export/ncrm-media-2973-my-story.md **Old post ID:** 2973 > **Status:** Essay-style voice entry — reference copy below for block editor — I was a 14 year old when Dr. King was murdered and I recall attending the ceremony at Crump stadium in which Rev. Hooks’ and Rev. Lawson’s eulogies left […]

## Migration reference **Live site:** https://civilrightsmuseum.org/story/a-grandkid-of-the-movement-intergenerational-activism/ **Export file:** /www/ncrmdev_939/vc-copy-export/ncrm-media-2974-a-grandkid-of-the-movement-intergenerational-activism.md **Old post ID:** 2974 > **Status:** Essay-style voice entry — reference copy below for block editor — My grandmother Marianne O’Connor worked with Civil Rights leaders Clara Luper in Oklahoma City to help start the lunch counter movement there. Her daughter, my aunt Lora, has brought […]

## Migration reference **Live site:** https://civilrightsmuseum.org/story/a-black-and-white-world/ **Export file:** /www/ncrmdev_939/vc-copy-export/ncrm-media-2975-a-black-and-white-world.md **Old post ID:** 2975 > **Status:** Essay-style voice entry — reference copy below for block editor — I was inspired to write this poem, “A Black and White World” after a recent visit to the National Civil Rights Museum. As I walked through the museum, I […]

## Migration reference **Live site:** https://civilrightsmuseum.org/story/a-song-to-remember/ **Export file:** /www/ncrmdev_939/vc-copy-export/ncrm-media-2976-a-song-to-remember.md **Old post ID:** 2976 > **Status:** Essay-style voice entry — reference copy below for block editor — I was sitting in the modest congregation at Unity Santa Fe as the choir director, Catherine, began a powerful rendition of We Shall Overcome, a tribute to the work […]

## Migration reference **Live site:** https://civilrightsmuseum.org/story/jci-symposium-on-social-equality/ **Export file:** /www/ncrmdev_939/vc-copy-export/ncrm-media-2977-jci-symposium-on-social-equality.md **Old post ID:** 2977 > **Status:** Essay-style voice entry — reference copy below for block editor — “I am an invisible man. No I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe. Nor am I one of your Hollywood movie ectoplasms. I am […]

## Migration reference **Live site:** https://civilrightsmuseum.org/story/bell-tolling-commemoration/ **Export file:** /www/ncrmdev_939/vc-copy-export/ncrm-media-2978-bell-tolling-commemoration.md **Old post ID:** 2978 > **Status:** Essay-style voice entry — reference copy below for block editor — U.S. Navy firefighter, Terrence Johnson, honored Dr. King during a commemoration ceremony aboard Naval Support Activity Mid-South, 20 miles north of Memphis. Thank you Mr. Johnson for your service […]

## Migration reference **Live site:** https://civilrightsmuseum.org/story/how-rev-martin-luther-king-jr-changed-my-life/ **Export file:** /www/ncrmdev_939/vc-copy-export/ncrm-media-2988-how-rev-martin-luther-king-jr-changed-my-life.md **Old post ID:** 2988 > **Status:** Essay-style voice entry — reference copy below for block editor — I was about 17 in a small, rural town in Connecticut watching CBS Eyewitness News when the camera showed many people praying with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for […]

## Migration reference **Live site:** https://civilrightsmuseum.org/story/mlk50-where-do-we-go-from-here/ **Export file:** /www/ncrmdev_939/vc-copy-export/ncrm-media-2940-mlk50-where-do-we-go-from-here.md **Old post ID:** 2940 > **Status:** Essay-style voice entry — reference copy below for block editor — The United States observes only ten national holidays. Three of those days celebrate individuals: Christopher Columbus Day honors a man who in our civil mythology discovered the Americas, but […]

## Migration reference **Live site:** https://civilrightsmuseum.org/story/jamaras-story/ **Export file:** /www/ncrmdev_939/vc-copy-export/ncrm-media-2941-jamaras-story.md **Old post ID:** 2941 > **Status:** Essay-style voice entry — reference copy below for block editor — My parents were teenagers in 1968. My father was a 14 years old Memphian and recounts to me April 4th as if it happened yesterday. He says the tension […]

## Migration reference **Live site:** https://civilrightsmuseum.org/story/what-is-your-story/ **Export file:** /www/ncrmdev_939/vc-copy-export/ncrm-media-2942-what-is-your-story.md **Old post ID:** 2942 > **Status:** Essay-style voice entry — reference copy below for block editor — As part of the MLK50 commemoration, the National Civil Rights Museum wants to collect your stories on Dr. King, his life, his death, and his legacy. As a historical […]

## Migration reference **Live site:** https://civilrightsmuseum.org/story/kennedy-orders-end-to-housing-discrimination/ **Export file:** /www/ncrmdev_939/vc-copy-export/ncrm-media-2928-kennedy-orders-end-to-housing-discrimination.md **Old post ID:** 2928 > **Status:** Essay-style voice entry — reference copy below for block editor — Summary: On November 20th, 1962, President John F. Kennedy issued Executive Order 11063, banning federally funded housing programs from discriminating against individuals on the basis of race. The order […]