With travel restrictions in place and opening hours impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses and museums are adapting their exhibits and events making them accessible to people around the globe.
With the upcoming 52nd anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s death, the Memphis National Civil Rights Museum will be taking the commemoration online. Developing a virtual broadcast entitled ‘Remember MLK: The Man. The Movement. The Moment’, the museum will air their event across their website and social media – including some of the best segments of MLK50, a performance from the MLK50 Legacy Choir and a moment of silence and reflection at 6:01pm, the time Dr. King was shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel.
The National Civil Rights Museum is also planning ahead in 2020 with the launch of The Negro Motorists’ Green Book and American Story exhibition – highlighting the history of ’The Green Book’. The Green Book was an annual guide created in 1936 to assist African Americans travelling across the United States by providing them with a list of locations they would accept to stay and eat. The National Civil Rights Museum is the perfect location for this exhibition to start its tour of the USA, as the Lorraine Motel – the site where the museum still stands today – was listed in The Green Book when it was circulating between 1936 and 1967.
Throughout the year, the National Civil Rights Museum showcases 260 artefacts and interactive exhibits covering history across five centuries, honouring the struggles and triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement in the USA and encouraging the public to learn more about this period of time. Aiming to continue to provide this history to Memphis locals, visitors and those interested around the globe, the National Civil Rights Museum is ensuring that their exhibits and events are available to everyone in this time of struggle.
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