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Few museums show the North's Civil Rights Movement. A new one in Harlem is ‘just getting started’
The Urban Civil Rights Museum in Harlem will showcase Northern civil rights history through multimedia exhibits and oral histories, organizers said.
- On Nov. 14, the National Urban League will open the Urban Civil Rights Museum in Harlem, the first institution dedicated to northern civil rights history in New York City.
- While dozens of civil rights museums exist in Southern states, organizers contend this is the first premiere institution dedicated to the lesser-known histories of the Civil Rights Movement in the North.
- Located in the Urban League's Manhattan headquarters, the museum features nearly 12,000 square feet of multimedia installations documenting the Atlantic Slave Trade, the Great Migration, and modern social justice impacts.
- Jennifer Scott, the museum's founding executive director, and Marc Morial, the Urban League's president and CEO, designed the museum to anchor history to Harlem; both emphasized visitors are 'key participants' in ongoing change.
- The opening arrives as scholars like Martha Biondi push against efforts to sanitize American history, preserving narratives the Trump administration previously labeled "divisive, race-centered ideology.
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Few museums show the North’s Civil Rights Movement. A new one in Harlem is ‘just getting started’ – WTOP News
NEW YORK (AP) — The National Urban League will open a museum this weekend in Harlem dedicated to the civil rights struggles in the North, the first of its kind in New York City. Located in the Urban League’s Manhattan headquarters, the Urban Civil Rights Museum in Harlem explores the region’s lesser-known histories of the...
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