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National Civil Rights Museum expands with new 'Legacy Experience'

A curious thing happened during the ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the opening of the National Civil Rights Museum’s new “Legacy Experience.”

The event in the plaza near the balcony where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed had proceeded as expected — food trucks, deejays, inspirational remarks from a podium — when Memphis Mayor Paul Young took the microphone.

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