True Love Waits: The National Civil Rights Museum

The True Love Waits program takes all the girls on their annual trip. Every year we went somewhere different. True Love Waits is a group of girls who makes a commit to God to not have sex before marriage. As a group, all the girls wanted to go to Florida. In 2013 we went to Disney World. While we were there we visited BB King, Medieval time and The Holy Land. At the time when we went to Florida, Trayvon Martin was murdered. After his death, my whole life change. Bad thoughts runs through my head. I even wonder if I was next. In 2014, we went to Memphis, Tennessee. While we were there we visit, The National Civil Rights Museums, Stax Museums and the Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum. This was an important event for me because I actually

The National Civil Rights Museum is the American’ story. This is the story and the struggled of Americans centuries ago. The museum offers 260 artifacts, more than 40 new films, oral histories, interactive media and external listening posts that guides visitors through history ( National Civil Rights Museum) .The museum’s collection mission to preserve, educate and exhibit was formulated and collecting efforts were focused on acquiring and preserving objects representing the American Civil Rights history and African American history and culture. (National Civil Rights Museum).When entering the museum, we enter the circular gallery. At the circular galley, we would walk on the floor map of North and South America, Europe and Africa. Second, I visited the timeline of amendments and legislation that granted right to African Americans. Though historic photographs and legal text, about the despite segregation. Third, I visited the public schools. The classroom took place in the courtroom and the classroom. The public schools showed the mapping of desegregation and how it unfolded in states all over the country. Fourth, I visited the bus. By entering the bus, you can her an audio of what happen during this boycott with Rosa Park. The audio also plays Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speech delivered on the first night of the boycott. Fifth, I visited the original lunch counter. While we saw the gentle men sitting down at the lunch counter, the museum shows actually footage of this happen back during segregation. Sixth, we went to “We Are Prepared to Die.” There, I saw the bus that the freedom riders rode on. Seventh, I visited the jail cell to hear Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. reading of his letter from a Birmingham jail. In front of the jail house was pivotal moments and speeches during the campaign. Eight, I visit “I am man”. The gallery explains the story of the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike. Rev. James Lawson and T.O.