History Talk

Join hosts Leticia Wiggins and Patrick Potyondy for part one of a two-segment History Talk on race in America. In “Putting Race on Display,” they interview Ohio State historians Stephanie Shaw and Hassan Jeffries about their work renovating the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis. “It really is a place,” says Jeffries, “for living history.” The Lorraine Motel, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Now it is part of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee.   - Posted November 2014