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National Civil Rights Museum
MUSEUM
(
www.civilrightsmuseum.org
; 450 Mulberry St; adult/student & senior/child $10/9/8; 9am-5pm
Mon & Wed-Sat, 1-5pm Sun Sep-May, to 6pm Jun-Aug)
Housed across the street from the Lor-
raine Motel, where the Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr was fatally shot on April 4,
1968, is the gut-wrenching National Civil Rights Museum. Five blocks south of Beale St,
this museum's extensive exhibits and detailed timeline chronicle the struggle for African
