On MLK Day, calls for new activism echoed around the National Civil Rights Museum
Guests attend the Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration at the National Civil Rights Museum on Monday, Jan. 19, 2026. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
The holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. drew a large crowd at the Civil Rights Museum as one of the last living members of the city’s civil rights vanguard called out against “the silence of good people.”
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