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National Civil Right Museum is sponsoring a film series that reflect themes in the exhibit For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, on display through Aug. 20. A one-hour documentary film produced for the Smithsonian Channel on the last days of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will premiere at the National Civil Rights Museum next Wednesday as part of a series of free Black History Month events. The documentary MLK: The Assassination Tapes is derived almost entirely from 1968 television news footage and radio broadcasts and follows King from the weeks leading to his visit to Memphis and to the aftermath of his murder on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel. The premiere will be in the museum auditorium at 6 p.m. It will air on the Smithsonian Channel at 8 p.m. Feb. 12. The film is part of a free series that opens Thursday with Ethnic Notions, a 1986 Emmy-winning documentary tracing stereotypes that have fueled anti-black prejudice.

> For more on the film series click here

In celebration of Black History Month, the National Endowment for the Humanities and its grantees pay tribute to the contributions of African Americans to our nation and its history with numerous events and cultural programs. Click on below for coverage of NEH-supported events, exhibitions, and resources focusing on African American history and culture taking place around the country this February--lists that feature For All the World to See!

> Click Here for the NEH Black History Month Recommendations

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Also, for teachers or museum educators: The National Endowment for the Humanities recommends the For All the World to See website as an important Black History Month teaching resource!

> Check Out the NEH EDSITEment Black History Month Page

Read all about it: For All the World to See in the Washington Post, Huffington Post, and MSNBC Iternaries plus an outstanding feature on the NEH on the Road version of the exhibition at its first venue--the Wyandotte County Historical Museum, Bonner Springs, Kansas (starting 6 April 2012)--in the Kansas City Kansan!

> Read About FATWTS in the Washington Post

> Read about FATWTS on The Huffington Post

> Read About FATWTS on MSNBC-Itineraries

>Read about FATWTS/NEH on the Road in the Kansas City Kansan

Want to learn all about For All the World to See all on one web page? Check out this informative Fact Page from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)--chock full of links to articles and press, TV and radio stories, and updates on the national and NEH on the Road tours of the exhibition. An outstanding source for information on FATWTS!

> Access the FATWTS Fact Page on the UMBC Website