National Civil Rights Museum
http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/
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“The Museum was founded with the purpose of not only preserving the place where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spent his last hours, but also to preserve his legacy and that of the civil rights movement as a whole.”
In this online location, users can find introductory information in the “Exhibits” about the black civil rights movement and its causes and consequences. An essay called Voices of Struggle addresses the contributions of Nat Turner, John Brown, Sarah C. Roberts, Dred Scott, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, and William Lloyd Garrison. Other excerpts include the Jim Crow Laws, the Civil War, philanthropists, Civil Rights Acts, Booker T. Washington, and more.
