We spent this morning at Rhodes College in midtown Memphis. Dr. Charles McKinney spoke about the contested chronology of the Civil Rights movement and the history of Civil Rights in Memphis. Over a dozen students from Rhodes, Fisk, and a few other universities joined us. They are in Memphis for the summer to work on the Crossroads to Freedom project, an online archive of oral histories with Civil Rights activists. They hope to complete 400-500 interviews over the course of the next 10 years. We all then had BBQ for lunch.
This afternoon, the students could choose which site that they wanted to visit. Most chose to go to the fantastic Rock'N'Soul museum, which chronicles the history of 20th century race relations through music. Since I had gone to the museum last month, I chose to take a tour of the Gibson guitar factory next door.
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