Memphis, Tennessee
museum website

The “Rosa Parks bus”. For more images click on the thumbnail to the right.

The National Civil Rights Museum is housed in the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where Martin Luther King was shot in 4 April 1968. The museum gives an excellent insight into the history of slavery and the struggle for equal rights. The museum has two buses. One is the “Rosa Parks” bus, which respresents the Montgomery city bus where Mrs Parks in 1955 refused to give up her seat to a white person.
The second bus represents the “Freedom Riders”, a movement that in 1961 and subsequent years protested against segregation on public buses by riding interstate buses with mixed groups into southern states, often leading to violent confrontations.

The “Freedom Riders bus”. For more images click on the thumbnail to the right.