The Third Reconstruction: Civil Rights Demonstrations in the 1990s

Activity: Presentations, memberships, ownership and other activitiesLecture and oral contribution

Description

This conference paper explores the ways in which the life and career of American civil rights campaigner and Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr. have been portrayed in civil rights museums recently opened in Birmingham, Alabama, and Memphis, Tennessee.
Period4 Apr 1998
Event titleEuropean Association for American Studies annual conference
Event typeConference
LocationLisbon, PortugalShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • United States
  • civil rights movement
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • museums