“Where Do We go From Here?” was the theme for the National Civil Rights Museum’s 50th commemoration of Dr. King’s legacy. It was important to bring that theme to life. We did so over the course of a year, but April 2 – 4, 2018 represented the core of the commemorative activities.
On April 2 & 3, 2018 the museum hosted a symposium along with the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphrey’s School of Law. This Compendium catalogues the thought leaders’ perspectives as represented on April 3. Labor, economic equity and the promise of education are the topics covered in this narrative.
The issues facing our communities are not simple, and will not be solved overnight, but with steady attention and focused effort, we can be what Dr. King so urgently encouraged us to be. It is that fierce urgency of now that calls each of us to contribute to completing the work begun by those heroes and sheroes of the mid-20th century civil rights movement.
