Two Nashville museums curating musical history added to Civil Rights Trail

By: Anne Braly

Outlets: Tennessee Lookout

Published: February 6, 2026

Words: 827

Last Updated: 3 weeks ago

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During the Civil Rights era, masses marched in the streets, had sit-ins and boycotted stores. Others challenged racism in ways more solitary but no less life-changing ways.

The U.S. Civil Rights Trail is an avenue that gives a voice to all that happened — the struggle for equal rights to bring an end to racial segregation and exclusion fought for by ordinary, brave citizens, without whom the movement would have failed.

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