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The National Civil Rights Museum had planned a large celebration to honor what would have been King’s 95th birthday, but as the weather forecast became clear, they realized they would have to pivot.
“The Negro Motorist Green Book,” a new exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services, begins its public life at the Lorraine Motel, which is one of a shrinking number of “Green Book” locales still in existence.
A tour bus of folks from Toledo hits the highlights: from the site of the first Piggly Wiggly, to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, to The Peabody. A Memphian along for the ride finds fresh cause for wonder.
Rev. Jesse Jackson and Memphis-based Stax Records formed an alliance following Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death here that allowed Jackson to use the record label as a platform to spread the spoken word.
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