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Photo courtesy of Community Foundation of Greater MemphisThis Saturday, May 16, something extraordinary opens in Memphis. The National Civil Rights Museum—built around the Lorraine Motel, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968—unveils its new Legacy Building, a landmark expansion debuting in the museum’s 35th anniversary year.
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