The museum’s story isn’t necessarily a linear story, at least not in the organization of the space. One can wander about. Once you move away from the wall telling the story from slavery to mass incarceration, there is no attempt to suggest how you take in the details of the four eras of slavery, segregation, lynching, and mass incarceration that make up the museum. Sounds and sights bleed from one exhibit section into the next, and if you stand in the center of this small museum, as I did, you can hear the voices of King and Barnett, the sounds of freedom songs and the screams of people being
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