Founded in 2014, the Dallas Civil Rights Museum is a place for people to discover and reconnect with the power of the Civil Rights Movement in America during the life and times of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Dallas Civil Rights Museum has a national focus of civil rights milestones from a national perspective. The museum houses a collection of original speeches, books, spoken word, art, and artifacts reflecting the Civil Rights movement to inspire dream keepers and change agents. 
The four focal points are:
- The Underground Railroad
- The Civil Rights Movement
- Black Wall Street
- Trail of Tears
Visitors will learn:
– How the enslaved used visual codes in quilts, songs, and more to seek freedom to Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean
– Why August 28, 1955, is considered by some as a launching pad for the modern civil rights movement
– The significance of jelly beans and a bar of soap in seeking the right to vote,
– Why the GAP band named itself in memory of the 40-acre Greenwood District in Tulsa, OK,
– The removal of the Choctaw, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek and Seminole nations.
Individual and group tours are available. To schedule a tour, contact Emma Rodgers.
For general information, please call 214-670-8418.
Below are some resources for you to learn more about some of the exhibits.
Books:
Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad
Jacqueline Tobin and Raymond G. Dobard
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
Carole Boston Weatherford
The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson (Great Migration)
Warriors Don’t Cry
by Melba Patillo Beals (Integration of Little Rock Central HS)
The Watson’s Go to Birmingham – 1963
Christopher Paul Curtis
Movies
4 Little Girls
Spike Lee (Bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church 1963
10,000 Black Men Named George
by Robert Townsend (Sleeping Car Porters)
That Great Debaters
Denzel Washington (Wiley College and James Farmer Jr)
Harriet
Kasi Lemmons
Loving
(Richard and Mildred Loving v Virginia decreed anti-miscegenation laws unconditional)
Origin
Ava DuVernay (based on the book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson)
Download: DCRM_Media_List (PDF)
Gallery
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