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(5 Dec 2017) SOUND UP: music from entrance to museum "This little light of mine I'm going to let it shine." MISSISSIPPI IS MARKING ITS BICENTENNIAL BY OPENING TWO HISTORY MUSEUMS UNDER ONE ROOF. THE MUSEUM OF MISSISSIPI HISTORY COVERS WIDE RANGING TOPICS FROM NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE, THE CIVIL WAR, TO MORE RECENT EVENTS INCLUDING HURRICANE KATRINA. SOUNDBITE (English) Lance Wheeler, Mississippi Civil Rights Museum: "Originally before they started burning crosses, they left caskets on your doorsteps basically saying you're next, and this painting was made about 1859, 1849." NEXT DOOR THE CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM LOOKS AT A COMPLEX CHAPTER IN THE STATE'S HISTORY FROM 1945 TO 1976, THE EFFORTS TO BREAK DOWN SEGREGATION AND THE VIOLENT BACKLASH AGAINST IT. SOUNDBITE (English) Ellie Dahmer, Husband killed by KKK: "I hope it never happens to anybody else, regardless of what color they are." ONE DISPLAY TELLS OF THE 1966 FIREBOMBING OF VERNON DAHMER'S HOME, A LOCAL NAACP LEADER. HIS WIFE RECOUNTS TRYING TO QUIET THEIR 10 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER DURING THE ATTACK. SOUNDBITE (English) Ellie Dahmer, Husband killed by KKK: "They were shooting in the house, my husband was returning fire, we were trying to keep her quiet so they wouldn't know where to shoot us. Well she was screaming so loud, lord have mercy we were going to get burnt in this house alive." ELLIE DAHMER AND HER SMALL CHILDREN WERE ABLE TO ESCAPE BUT DAHMER WAS KILLED. SOUNDBITE (English) Vernon Dahmer Jr., Father killed by KKK: "Six of his 7 sons served in the military for a total of 78 years." VERNON DAHMER WAS ON ACTIVE DUTY AT THE TIME OF HIS FATHER'S DEATH. SOUNDBITE (English) Vernon Dahmer Jr., Father killed by KKK: "To come home and see what had happened was totally devastating. My family was homeless, my dad had died, my little sister had been burned, I had to just pick it up and move forward." THE MUSEUM REFLECTS HOW THE STATE HAS ALSO MOVED FORWARD SINCE THAT TIME. SOUNDBITE (English) Vernon Dahmer Jr., Father killed by KKK: "There are bad people in Mississippi but there are a lot of good people, and it's the good people that helped us get where we are today to approve what we see here, we've come a long way." BUT THE MUSEUM MAKES A POINT THAT MORE CHANGE IS NEEDED. SOUNDBITE (English) Pamela D.C. Junior, Mississippi Civil Rights Museum: "Are we through? No we've got a long way to go that's why the last gallery is 'Where do we go from here?'." OFFICIALS SAY THE TWO MUSEUMS OFFER AN HONEST LOOK AT THE STATE'S HISTORY. MARINA HUTCHINSON, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...