Why We Teach Civil Rights

The Civil Rights Movement Through the Lens of Holocaust Pedagogy “This is not the day of the white man, not of the black man, but of man as man.” -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Our Origins: Justice, Dialogue, and the Museum of Tolerance Founded on the legacy of Simon Wiesenthal’s lifelong pursuit of justice, accountability, and human dignity, the Museum of Tolerance took shape in 1993 amid the aftermath of the Los Angeles uprisings—a moment that demanded dialogue in the face of racial violence and systemic injustice.