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TN -- Memphis -- National Civil Rights Museum (incl Lorraine Hotel):

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1. LORRAI_971108_01.JPG: Memphis; Natl Civil Rights Museum; Lorraine Motel Here's the Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King was killed in 1968. They did a really nice job making this into the National Civil Rights Museum. You start with a long series of photograph-heavy, frequently interactive displays with some life-size statues and end up in the hallway outside the room where he stayed and inside from the balcony where he was killed. The motel itself is still in a slummy area of Memphis even though it's only two blocks from frequently trendy Beale Street.
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Wikipedia Description: National Civil Rights Museum
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The motel where Rev. King was assassinated is now the site of the National Civil Rights Museum. King was standing on the motel's balcony at the place near the wreath.

The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, is a privately-owned complex of museums and historic buildings built around the former Lorraine Motel at 450 Mulberry Street, where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

Major components of the complex on 4.14 acres include a museum which traces the history of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1600s to the present, the Lorraine Motel and hotel buildings as well as the Young and Morrow Building at 422 Main Street on the west side of Mulberry up a small hill across the street from the motel which was the site where James Earl Ray initially confessed (and later recanted) to shooting King from a second story bathroom window as well as the Canipe’s Amusement Store at 418 Main Street next door to the rooming house where the alleged murder weapon with Ray's fingerprints was found. Included on the grounds is the brushy lot that stood between the rooming house and the motel where a differing theory says the fatal shot came from a different weapon at ground level in a conspiracy involving Loyd Jowers who operated Jim's Grill which opened onto the lot.

The complex is owned by the nonprofit Lorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation. It is located on the south edge of Downtown Memphis, Tennessee in what is now called the South Main Arts District and is about six blocks east of the Mississippi River.

History:

The first hotel on the site was the 16 room Windsor Hotel built on the northern side of the complex around 1925 which was renamed the Marquette Hotel. Walter Bailey purchased it in 1945 and renamed it for his wife Loree and the song Sweet Lorraine. During segregation it was an upscale accommodation that catered to a black clientele. He added a sec ...More...
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