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Civil Rights Museum

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• Originally published 12/11/2017

  Trump, Rejecting Calls to Stay Away, Speaks at Civil Rights Museum

  President Trump’s presence jolted the opening of a civil rights museum, generating boycotts from some leaders in the movement and small protests by activists as the state’s attempt to confront its racially violent past clashed with more recent divisions wrought by Mr. Trump’s presidency.

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• Originally published 12/08/2017

  John Lewis Is Skipping a Civil Rights Museum Opening

  Here's why that's a big deal.

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• Originally published 12/07/2017

  With Trump Visit, Protest May Follow Opening of Civil Rights Museum

  A number of young activists are busily putting together protests — a silent kneel-in, possibly, or a street demonstration — in a parallel of the history chronicled in the museum itself.

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• Originally published 11/27/2017

  Mississippi’s bold new Civil Rights Museum offers unflinching view of US history

  Topics overlap: slavery, the civil war, Jim Crow laws, the Delta blues. The result is a sweeping view of Mississippi’s history that puts the civil rights movement into context.

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• Originally published 06/26/2014

  The rise of the civil rights museum

  Inside, exhibits in the nearly 43,000-square-foot museum link the historic stories of the American civil rights movement and modern human rights struggles around the world.

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• Originally published 06/06/2014

  Finding Inspiration for a Civil Rights Museum

  “It’s about creating a sense of that world, and immersing yourself in it.”

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• Originally published 04/11/2014

  A Visit to Atlanta's National Center for Civil and Human Rights (Interview)

  Maureen Nutting

  A historian visits the new, and not quite complete, National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta.