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Photo Tour: Atlanta Civil Rights museum

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Visitors view archival images from the funeral for Martin Luther King, Jr., at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights Tuesday, June 10, 2014, in Atlanta. The NCCHR tells a story broader than the American civil rights movement, linking that movement to the international current of human rights reform that took inspiration in Atlanta. David Tulis / AJC Special

Credit: David Tulis

Credit: David Tulis

Visitors view archival images from the funeral for Martin Luther King, Jr., at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights Tuesday, June 10, 2014, in Atlanta. The NCCHR tells a story broader than the American civil rights movement, linking that movement to the international current of human rights reform that took inspiration in Atlanta. David Tulis / AJC Special
By Bo Emerson
June 20, 2014

A gallery devoted to the American Civil Rights movement at the museum takes visitors through a series of portals that begin with scenes and signs of segregation before the Civil Rights movement. In one room a panoramic screen tells the story of the 1963 March on Washington. Then, past a touching stained-glass tribute to the four young girls killed in the Birmingham church bombing, is a tableau of moments from the day in April 1968 when Martin Luther King. Jr. was murdered. Archival video shows Walter Cronkite announcing King's death on national television. And nearby is a staircase illuminated by an eerie re-creation of the sign outside the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn.

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