National Civil Rights Museum Offers Free Admission for King Day 2024
UPDATE 1/14/24: The King Day 2024 celebration has been moved to online. Learn more about how you can participate and other ways to include a study about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in your school.
The National Civil Rights Museum (NCRM) will present King Day 2024 on its museum campus in Memphis on Monday, January 15, 2024, as it honors Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 95th birthday. “History Moves Us Forward” is the theme for 2024 with a focus throughout the year on “major civil rights milestones“.
The day will have many educational opportunities for visitors as well as offer them a chance to give back to the community in a variety of ways.
Visitors will have free access to the museum from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. to view educational permanent exhibits like A Culture of Resistance, which depicts slavery in America from 1619 –1861, The Year They Walked covering the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-1956, and the year of 1965 with How Long? Not Long. about the Selma Voting Rights Campaign of 1965. Visitors will be treated with the visiting exhibit of We Forget . . . Images of the Black Civil Rights Movement, which is open on King Day and runs through May 6, 2024.
There will be live performances on the Main Stage by local artists that includes vocalist Gerald Richardson, Overton High School choir, and more. Activities and entertainment will be held for children. The NCRM is also holding a food drive to benefit the Mid-South Food Bank and blood drive to benefit Vitalant. Food donations should be canned goods/non-perishable items and peanut butter.
Contact the NCRM at (901) 521-9699 to learn more about King Day 2024.
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