Nation IN BRIEF : TENNESSEE : Civil Rights Leaders to Dedicate Museum
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The vanguard of America’s struggle for equal rights in the 1950s and 1960s will gather this week to dedicate a National Civil Rights Museum at the Memphis, Tenn., motel where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was slain. The five-day celebration will attract speakers as diverse in their civil rights approaches as Rosa Parks, whose arrest for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger set off a bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955, and H. Rap Brown, a former Black Power leader now known as Jamil Abdula Al-Amil.
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