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Bookmark or Share- National Civil Rights Museum | At the Lorraine MotelThe National Civil Rights Museum, located in Memphis, TN, explores the history of the Civil Rights Movement and its impact on our culture today. Plan your visit today.
- Lorraine Motel - SAH ARCHIPEDIALocated about four blocks from Beale Street, the historic African American commercial center in Memphis, the Lorraine Motel was where Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Abernathy, and Andrew Young stayed in 1968 when they came to Memphis to support the city’s striking sanitation workers, most of whom were African American.
- The Lorraine Motel Five Decades After MLK’s AssassinationThe significance of this humble-looking motor lodge is immense. Just after six o’clock on a Thursday evening in April of 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader and Nobel laureate, was assassinated while standing on the balcony outside of his second-floor room at the Lorraine.
- The Famous Lorraine Motel - National Civil Rights MuseumThe Lorraine Motel was forever etched in America’s collective memory with the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, but even before that fateful day, the property at 450 Mulberry Street had a fascinating history in its own right.
- The Lorraine Motel and Martin Luther King - The New YorkerMartin Luther King, Jr., lies at the feet of civil-rights activists pointing in the direction of his assassin. The Lorraine Motel, where King was murdered, later became a civil-rights museum.
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