Day two of the Clearwater High Civil Rights Tours started rhythmically with a visit to Stax Records in Memphis, Tenn. Stax Mueseum was founded in 1959 and has deep roots in southern soul music. After watching a short movie about Stax Records’ influence and soul music's  connection to the Civil Rights Movement, students were able to relive some the period by viewing, listening and reading musical artifacts from the time period. Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Al Green and the Staples Singers were among the record company’s hit makers.

Clearwater High students then visited the very site where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered. At the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel and the National Civil Rights Museum at The Young and Morrow Building & Boarding House, Clearwater High students viewed the room, balcony and other exhibits at the hotel, which is now a museum, where Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Across the street, students visited the room where his killer James Earl Ray fired the deadly shot.

While at the museum, the students had a conversation with A. C. Wharton, Jr., Memphis’ sixty-third mayor and the first African American to serve as Shelby County, Tennessee’s mayor. He told the students to trust their “feelings.”

“When you see prejudice, income and gender inequality, go to your feelings,” Wharton said. “You can learn a lot of facts but it’s about what’s in your heart becomes a part of your DNA and you don’t forget that.”

While in Memphis, the students ate dinner Blue's City Cafe on Beale Street. They then held  student  coordinated a scavenger hunt along Beale Street. The students also visited the Withers Collection Museum and Gallery also on Beale Street. Ernest C. Withers was a photojournalist who photographed the Civil Rights Movement including the Emmitt Till trial in 1955. His photos appeared in publications around the world.

Thirty-two students from Clearwater High participated in the Clearwater High Civil Rights Tour, a project-based personalized learning opportunity. This is the second year for the tour. Throughout this school year, students have taken a class that has allowed them to study and research the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.