Taylor Branch on the Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Historian Taylor Branch, author of a trilogy of books on the civil rights era, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Part…
From a May 2011 tour of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. The museum is on the site of the Lorraine Motel, where Marti… read more
From a May 2011 tour of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. The museum is on the site of the Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated April 4, 1968. It opened as the National Civil Rights Museum in 1991; and 2011 marked its 20th anniversary. The museum's director of governmental and community affairs, Gwen Harmon, led the tour. close
Historian Taylor Branch, author of a trilogy of books on the civil rights era, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Part…
In the Fall of 2011, American History TV visited Old Sturbridge Village, Massachusetts, a “living history” museum that d…
Tavis Smiley talked about his book, Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Year, in which…
Historian Richard Norton Smith toured three locations along Boston’s North Shore: Fort Sewall in Marblehead, Massachuset…