There are 130 article(s) tagged National Civil Rights Museum:

• January 2019

  • Kerner Commission update confronts questions of time, change and familiar issues

    Alan Curtis, president of the Eisenhower Foundation, was in Memphis last week to talk about an update of the landmark Kerner Commission report on 1968 riots.

    By Bill Dries January 14, 2019

• November 2018

  • Let’s stop tearing down community and build something we can all be proud of

    In early October the National Civil Rights Museum, along with Bridges and Facing History and Ourselves, launched a campaign to encourage empathy.

    By Terri Lee Freeman November 03, 2018

• October 2018

  • Beverly Robertson tapped as interim leader of Greater Memphis Chamber

    For at least a year, the Greater Memphis Chamber will be led by an African-American woman whose deep roots in the city are matched by a stellar track record in business and nonprofit worlds.

    By Wayne Risher October 24, 2018

  • Freedom Awards match turbulence of 1968 with today

    Former Vice President Joe Biden told several thousand people at the National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Awards Wednesday, Oct. 17, that the gains made by the movement honored in the museum are “under siege.” “Once again, we need your energy,” Biden said as he accepted the award at the Orpheum theater.

    By Bill Dries October 18, 2018

  • Jackson: Midterms about ‘mood to fight back’

    Rev. Jesse Jackson knows the National Civil Rights Museum well. The two-time Democratic presidential contender, close associate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and leader of the merged civil rights groups Rainbow-PUSH has been there often since the museum opened in 1991.

    By Bill Dries October 17, 2018