Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum celebrating MLK Jr. Day
The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, 300 N. Houston St., will be celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, Jan.
16, by offering free admission from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. In commemoration of Dr. King’s work, the museum will be screening the films Selma and Rising: The Hall of Negro Life in the Cinemark Theater and will offer gallery talks about the civil rights movement in English and in Spanish.
Selma, screening at 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., is an Oscar Award-winning movie from 2014 chronicling King’s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., in 1965.
Run time is 128 minutes. Rising: The Hall of Negro Life, screening at 10:15 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., is a 2022 film telling the story of the creation of the Hall of Negro Life at the 1936 Texas Centennial at Fair Park, a pivotal space where Black Americans defined their own image in a public arena.
