In this June 16, 2014 photo, volunteer Monique Jenkins listens through headphones to increasingly intense taunts and threats endured by protesters during staged sit-ins at the whites only dining counters as part of an exhibit at the newly built National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta. The new museum about the history of […]
In this June 16, 2014 photo, volunteer Monique Jenkins listens through headphones to increasingly intense taunts and threats endured by protesters during staged sit-ins at the whites only dining counters as part of an exhibit at the newly built National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta. The new museum about the history of civil rights opens next week in Atlanta, the city where Martin Luther King Jr. was based. But the National Center for Civil and Human Rights also explores other human rights struggles, from womens rights and LGBT issues to immigration and child labor. The museum devotes separate galleries to modern human rights issues and the U.S. civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s, but also demonstrates how the two struggles are related. Visitors learn history through interactive exhibits and stories of real people. (AP Photo/David Goldman)