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Museum Visit: Center for Civil and Human Rights (Atlanta, GA)

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Back in old-timey days — ie over Thanksgiving break — some friends and I paid a visit to the Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia. It’s a pretty new attraction, and it’s been on my list to visit since it opened in 2014. (We were told in the lobby that it’s “Not a…… Continue reading Museum Visit: Center for Civil and Human Rights (Atlanta, GA)

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Reasons to Love History #7: Touching the Past

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I got to hold a piece of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s jail cell. I volunteer in an iron and steel museum. That may sound strange, but iron and steel have been super important in the South. Anyway, I clean and catalog the museum’s acquisitions. The gentleman who was restoring it for display elsewhere was allowed…… Continue reading Reasons to Love History #7: Touching the Past