‘We ain’t surprised’: NCRM’s Legacy Experience links past struggles to present politics
Staffers make last-minute adjustments to the “Legacy Experience” at the National Civil Rights Museum May 15, 2026. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
The $55-million renovation offers an expanded look at the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and of the movement since his death in 1968.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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