Page 6 - Michael Rocque News Today

This year, the campus of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, will be eerily empty on Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Gone will be the children and families enjoying the day’s activities – as many as 12,000 visitors on a good-weather day – and the crowds donating food or giving blood. “With the pandemic, it’s hard to do that,” said Faith Morris, chief marketing and external affairs officer for the museum, which is marking the holiday online. “We will try to give tho...