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A Culture of Resistance
This exhibit offers a graphic representation of the global impact of slavery. Entering the circular gallery, visitors walk on a floor map…
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A Culture of Resistance
This exhibit offers a graphic representation of the global impact of slavery. Entering the circular gallery, visitors walk on a floor map…
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Assassination & Aftermath
Assassination & Aftermath is not just about what happened on April 4, 1968. The patterns that have emerged force us to reexamine…
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Black Joy, In Spite Of...
Included with Museum Admission Too often, stories about Black life are framed through struggle, hardship, and harm. While those histories are real…
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Freedom Award Gallery
The Freedom Award Gallery is designed to leave you with initiative in your own life as well as admiration. It sharpens your…
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Hope Is a Discipline
Hope Is a Discipline is an interactive exhibition that invites visitors to consider hope as an active practice shaped by collective action.…
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Making Change
Being Seen, Being Heard invites visitors to reflect on the power and significance of visibility, voice, and representation within the broader story…
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Movements: 1968 to Now
Movements: 1968 to Now shows how the justice has coalesced around numerous issues and events. This experience brings you face to face…
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Pillars of Justice
The Civil Rights Movement reshaped the nation. It also revealed the depth of the work still to be done. The Pillars of…
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Say Their Names
Say Their Names For centuries, Black Americans have faced violence rooted in bigotry in the form of slavery, lynching, and police brutality.…
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Speaking Truth to Power
March 28, 2025 – April 19, 2026 State of Tennessee Gallery Exhibition Included with Museum Admission Exhibit generously sponsored by Kathy and…
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Standing Up by Sitting Down
The original lunch counter is here, along with three-dimensional figures sitting in at the counter and hecklers at their side. A film…
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The Poor People’s Campaign, Then and Now
The Poor People’s Campaign challenges you to see inequality through a different lens. It is not just a moment in history. It…
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The Southern Heritage Classic
September 11, 2024 – February 28, 2025 Included with Admission The National Civil Rights Museum presents a special exhibition in honor of the…
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The Year They Walked
In one of the museum’s original exhibits, visitors can hear audio that’s triggered by entering the bus. Three-dimensional figures are positioned on…
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Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
January 31, 2016 for multi-year loan “Voices of the Civil Rights Movement” combines two video archives into one interactive exhibit available within…
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We Are Prepared to Die
Following a 1960 Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation in bus and train terminals, the Congress of Racial Equality initiated a new Freedom…
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What do we want?
The Black Power exhibit shares the rise and fall of one of the most influential, yet often misunderstood, movements in the civil…
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