The nation's oldest African-American architectural firm, McKissack and McKissack, is located in Nashville, Tennessee.
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The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee is at the Lorraine Motel where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was slain in 1968. The museum preserves the motel and tells the history of the American Civil Rights Movement.
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The Alex Haley boyhood home in Henning is the first state-owned historic site devoted to African Americans in Tennessee.