Memphis, Tennessee
"Early morning, April fourShot rings out in the Memphis skyFree at last, they took your lifeThey could not take your pride"
These lyrics from the U2 song trigger the emotion felt in Memphis at the National Civil Rights Museum. It is a powerful place. As the kids sat at the restaurant counter where African Americans would not be served, as they walked off the bus Rosa Parks was told to leave, as they peered through the bars of the Birmingham Jail cell where Mar...