About

Making the Movement: Civil Rights Museum

Founder and Curator
David L. Crane, M.A.

Making the Movement is a traveling exhibition that explores the material culture of the Civil Rights Movement. The museum is funded by exhibition fees, donations, and merchandise sales.

David L. Crane, M.A. displays the exhibit at Elon University. Photo by Sam Roberts/Burlington Times News.

David L. Crane is the founder and curator of Making the Movement: Civil Rights Museum. He is a history instructor at Alamance Community College in North Carolina. He is the author of Making the Movement: How Activists Fought for Civil Rights with Buttons, Flyers, Pins, and Posters published by Princeton Architectural Press.

Making the Movement - How Activists Fought for Civil Rights with Buttons, Flyers, Pins, and Posters by David L. Crane

Crane is also the author of Become As One People: Colonial Identifications for Native Americans in the Carolinas, 1540-1790, which was published by Lambert Academic Publishing and is available for purchase on Amazon.com.

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