We got up early to get to the National Civil Rights Museum before we got on the road to Nashville. The museum was extensive, 2 buildings, one dedicated to civil rights until MLK Jr.’s assassination, and the other about the investigation of said assassination. They had great exhibits, some original letters, papers, signs, and a lot of the evidence gathered from the investigation, including the rifle used in the shooting. The museum is in the Lorraine Motel, and you walk through the room that MLK Jr. was in the day he was shot, and are on the balcony he was on. It is intense.
It is erie to see all the things people had to go through to get rights, and know that if you just replaced black or colored with gay or lesbian, not much has changed. History is repeating itself, and it is very very scary.
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