[Vid] Newseum Unveils New Permanent Civil Rights Exhibit

Just in time for the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, the Newseum opens “Make Some Noise: Students and the Civil Rights Movement,” an exhibit that explores the new generation of student leaders in the early 1960s who fought segregation by exercising their First Amendment rights and making their voices heard.

Key figures in the civil rights movement are featured, as well as an original section of the F.W.Woolworth lunch counter from Greensboro, NC, where four black college students launched the sit-in movement in 1960 and a bronze casting of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birmingham, AL jail cell door.

Down the corridor from “Make Some Noise,” the Newseum chronicles milestones in the movement with a changing exhibit, “1963: Civil Rights at 50,” which will be updated in 2014 and 2015 to cover more civil rights events of the times.

These exhibits take the place of the former Elvis exhibit.

*Lead image courtesy Newseum, credit Ted Polumbaum