David L. Crane

David L. Crane is the founder of Making the Movement: Civil Rights Museum, a traveling exhibition about the material culture of the Civil Rights Movement. Founded in 2013, the museum's collection consists of artifacts from Emancipation to the twenty-first century. These objects were not souvenirs. They were the nonviolent weapons that fought Jim Crow.

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Crane received BAs in history and political science, and an MA in history from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He joined the history faculty of Alamance Community College in 2008. He is the author of Become As One People: Colonial Identifications for Native Americans in the Carolinas, 1540-1790, and has contributed to textbooks, such as, Freedom On My Mind: A History of African Americans with Documents.