40th ANNIVERSARY
of
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. EVENTS
NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM
450 Mulberry Street
Memphis, TN
901-521-9699
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
11:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Tavis Smiley broadcast continues (Montgomery exhibit area)
Thursday, April 3, 2008
5:30 a.m. WLOK - "Unremitting Struggle"
6:00 a.m.- 5:30 p.m. WLOK Broadcasts Live
11:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Book signing in auditorium and courtyard
2:00 p.m. Beloved Community Academic Symposium special event
7:00 p.m. In Remembrance There is Life Storytelling Reception (NCRM Courtyard) begins
Friday, April 4, 2008
5:00 a.m. – 8: a.m. Good Morning Memphis TV broadcast begins in courtyard
500 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Tom Joyner Morning Show
live radio broadcast begins (Courtyard – if rain restroom area near jail cell)
6:00 a.m - 5: 30 p.m. WLOK Broadcasts Live
7:00 a.m. - WRBO
Eyewitness News with Dee Griffin TV broadcast
CNN TV broadcast begins in courtyard
6:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. NBC Today Show TV broadcast begins
9:30 a.m. AFSCME marchers arrive; will have brief courtyard program. Expecting several hundred participants including Alveda King (niece of Dr. King, Juanita Abernathy, widow of Ralph and son Kwame) . March will begin at AFSCME Headquarters, 485 Beale Street and end at the National Civil Rights Museum, 450 Mulberry Street. AFSCME phone number is 901-525-2458.
10:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m. WRBO Jackson Browne radio broadcast begins
1:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. WVON Chicago 690 AM live radio broadcast begins
2:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. Michael Baisden radio remote begins in Rose Room and stage; museum to provide theater seating for 150-200 people.
4:00 p.m. -7:00 p..m. Make it Plain Sirus Radio live broadcast begins
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. NBC Nightly News live with Brian Williams.
Al Sharpton March from City Hall (Downtown Memphis on Main Street) to National Civil Rights Museum
5:30 p.m.- 6:00 p.m. NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams TV broadcast begins
NCRM Candlelight Vigil begins at 5:30 p.m.
8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Larry King Live TV broadcast begins in courtyard
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Community At Large Meeting in Rose Room. Open to the public.