Opinion: Under Terri Freeman, the National Civil Rights Museum became a catalyst for change
Dan Conaway
Dan Conaway was a freelance columnist with The Daily Memphian from 2018 to 2025.
Freeman asked us to take what we felt inside the museum outside and apply it.
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