The free Power of Voting Experience museum will open Friday through June 30
Washington, D.C., speech on Aug. 28, 1963“I had a dream that myself and my team were heading to Brooklyn, and we were going to do something big in the community, and when I woke up, I started to think, what could that dream have been?” said McCloud, 36, a Newark native and mother of three who’s CEO of, a nonprofit voting rights advocacy group.
About 50 people found out on Wednesday when McCloud hosted a preview of the Voting Power Experience pop-up museum inspired by her dream, housed in a former Salvation Army emergency shelter at 79 University Ave. in downtown Newark, which will be open afternoons and evenings Friday-Monday through June 30, starting this Friday.
There is a lunch counter replicating the one at a Woolworth’s in Greensboro, North Carolina, where in 1960,to protest the whites-only policy there and at countless other establishments throughout the South. Wooden desks and chairs from the 1950′s evoke the New Orleans elementary school classroom desegregated by 6-year-old. A digital image of a striding Bridges and another student, “Ruby Moves Through Segregation” by Newark artist and educator Antoinette Ellis Williams, is among dozens of works in the museum.
A working grand piano evokes gospel singer and activist Mahalia Jackson, who advised King, “Tell them about The Dream, Martin,” during his Washington speech at the Lincoln Memorial.
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