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Have you ever walked down a street, looked up, been surprised by what you saw, & stopped.

That just happened as I caught sight of the Lorraine Hotel here in #Memphis. @NCRMuseum

A #TwitterTour to follow:
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Thread. Join me on this #TwitterTour of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis. A #MustSee. DYK: the Lorraine Motel, the site of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., has been transformed into @NCRMuseum. #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #MLK50NCRM Act. Engage. See.

Remembrance. Approaching the Lorraine Motel | @NCRMuseum & thinking back to a fateful, terrible day. #MLK #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth Thread. #Museum #AmericanHistory #CivilRights

Here, #OnThisDay #April4, 1968: at this place, an assassination. Today, a place of remembrance. And learning. #MLK #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM.
📷: National Civil Rights Museum. Lorraine Motel. Memphis, Tennessee @NCRMuseum

The Lorraine Motel.
Sign at the entrance of what is now the @NCRMuseum National Civil Rights Museum — America’s first #CivilRights museum.
Come visit, learn, see, act, engage… #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #MLK

#YouAreHere: that’s the #ticket. Stay tuned to this thread as we enter the @NCRMuseum 🇺🇸 National #CivilRights Museum. Come visit. #Memphis #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth

#TwitterTour 🇺🇸 The National Civil Rights Museum @NCRMuseum at the Lorraine Motel. #APeoplesStory #ANationsHistory — of hopes, dreams, challenge & change.

Among the @NCRMuseum exhibitions in the Lorraine Building: a wealth of exhibitions. From “a culture of resistance” to #MLK’s Last Hours. Come see, learn, engage, act. #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth civilrightsmuseum.org

A quesition & a google search sparked by a visit to the National Civil Rights Museum @NCRMuseum: Was Jim Crow a real person? Read: history.com/news/was-jim-c… vii I a @HISTORY #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth

Exhibition: the Montgomery Bus Boycott — the Year They Walked. @NCRMuseum #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM #RosaParks

#quote. “Non-violence is a weapon of the strong.” —Mohandas Gandhi.

From sit-ins at restaurant counters to “Freedom Bus” rides, the #civilrights movement encompassed many forms of non-violent protests. Learn more via @NCRMuseum the #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM =

Among the Exhibits at @NCRMuseum are these: from a time of segregation. #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth

You might have seen the movie #GreenBook @greenbookmovie @GreenBookFilm (#Oscars #BestPicture 2019). Now take a look at an actual Green Book (“The Negro Travellers’ Green Book). (Reproduction) At @NCRMuseum

More scenes from a then segregated, but changing South. Here at the National Civil Rights Museum @NCRMuseum at the Lorraine Motel In Memphis, Tennessee. #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth

“These Little Children.”

Remembrance. Birmingham, Alabama. @NCRMuseum

“…we must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers.” —#MLK, Jr.

#BHM #BlackHistoryMonth
cnn.com/2013/06/13/us/…

#IHaveADream

Full Text & Video of the Rev. Dr. #MartinLutherKing, Jr.’s speech.
Watch. Read. Act. 👉newsweek.com/martin-luther-… @NCRMuseum #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #MarchOnWashington #LetFreedomRing

“I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.” —#MLK

newsweek.com/martin-luther-… @NCRMuseum #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’” —#MLK

newsweek.com/martin-luther-… @NCRMuseum #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #IHaveADream

“This will be the day…when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning: ‘My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty… let freedom ring!’

“And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.“ —#MLK

newsweek.com/martin-luther-… @NCRMuseum #BHM

DYK: the #MarchonWashington (for #Jobs & #Freedom)
in Aug. 1963, aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges & inequalities faced by African Americans 100 yrs after emancipation. Stay connected & learn more via @NCRMuseum
history.com/topics/black-h… #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth

This #museum #TwitterTour continues here in Tennessee at the National #CivilRights Museum @NCRMuseum:

DYK #MLK Jr was in #Memphis that fateful April 4 date in 1968 in support of a Memphis Sanitation Strike. #BHM #BlackHistiryMonth #IAmAMan

#quote. “Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity & is for the building of humanity, it has dignity, & it has worth. For the person who picks up our garbage, in the final analysis, is as significant as the physician… All labor has worth.” —#MLK

#truth. #BHM

#quote. I’ve been to the mountaintop… [&] I’ve seen the promised land.”

Read the full text of the Rev. Dr. #MartinLutherKing, Jr.’s final speech. Delivered here in #Memphis, Tennessee, on #April3, 1968. m.afscme.org/union/history/… @NCRMuseum #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #MLK

Silence & Respect.
DYK: Room 306 of The Lorraine Motel—where the Rev. #MartinLutherKing, Jr. spent his last night—is now part of the National Civil Rights Museum @NCRMuseum in Memphis, Tennessee. Read of Dr King’s last hours here 👉civilrightsmuseum.org/kings-last-hou… #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth

Room 306, The Lorraine Motel at the @NCRMuseum
civilrightsmuseum.org/kings-last-hou… #remembrance. #MLK #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM

An eerie spot: outside rooms 306 & 307 of the Lorraine Motel at the @NCRMuseum & looking out across the street to the spot from which an assassin’s bullet came, talking the life of the Rev. Dr. #MartinLutherKing, Jr. in 1968.

#quote. “If any of you are around when I have to meet my day…” —#MartinLutherKing, Jr.

Do read this below.
From the @NCRMuseum
#BHM #BlackHistoryMonth

This @NCRMuseum #TwitterTour continues… (after a stop in the gift shop): that’s an intriguing #Gandhi souvenir. That being said: some great quotes.

“Be the Change you want to see in the world”

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”

— #MahatmaGandhi

DYK: The National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis includes the site where the Rev. Dr. #MartinLutherKing, Jr. 🙏 was assassinated. A wreath marks the spot on the balcony. @NCRMuseum #MLK #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth

A panorama view.
The Lorraine Motel. Remembrance.

#MartinLutherKing #MLK #BLackHistoryMonth #BHM @NCRMuseum

DYK: the National Civil Rights Museum includes two physical sections: the historic Lorraine Museum complex & across the street, these buildings, including one from which an assassin’s bullet came. @NCRMuseum #Remembrance #MLK #BlackHistoryMonth

Eerie. Looking back at the Lorraine Motel from a spot (pointed at from below in the famous black-and-white photo) near where James Earl Ray was said to have fired the shot that killed #MLK, Jr.

More historic photos here 👉fortune.com/2018/04/04/mar… @NCRMuseum #BlackHistoryMonth

Some final images from inside the National Civil Rights Museum: on the “meaning of the assassination” & a display spotlighting @NCRMuseum honorees. #civilrights #humanrights #BHM #MLK

Back outside of & out back at the National Civil Rights Museum, was struck by the “panhandlers…are banned” sign, & a nearby panhandler—both underscoring how much more needs to be done to achieve #MLK’s dream of equality, economic empowerment & an end to poverty. @NCRMuseum #BHM

And it’s a wrap.

This concludes my #TwitterTour this #BlackHistoryMonth 2020 of the National Civil Rights Museum @NCRMuseum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

Thanks for following along.
Now, come visit!
Website: civilrightsmuseum.org #IHaveADream #MLK

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