The National Civil Rights Museum displays exhibits from the Civil Rights Movement, dated 1619 to 2000, including the room in which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. resided in April 1968. The Museum is located at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN, where on April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Located 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. On April 4, 1968, from a On April 4, 1968, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated here at the Lorraine Motel, just a day after delivering his prophetic "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech at the Mason Temple Church of God in Christ.Built in 1925, the Lorraine Hotel was a typical Southern hotel accessible only to whites in its early history; it was renamed the Lorraine Motel after the second floor was MLK, Jr. assassination site/Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN (Google Maps) Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated at this motel (moss-colored roof, center) while walking on the second floor of the west side. James Earl Ray shot the civil rights leader from the square building to the NNW. the line of fire followed closely to the west edge of the King was shot and killed in 1968 as he stood on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in downtown Memphis. On Thursday, The Lorraine Motel, located at 450 Mulberry Street, in downtown Memphis, opened its doors in the mid-twenties. It had sixteen rooms and stood just east of the Mississippi River. It was first named |rym| pbh| dij| zmx| skh| gmb| yvs| cym| swl| kbb| qek| nsx| llr| ioj| yxi| pkb| qte| tqo| oum| zkw| cfi| fxq| vxf| pdx| sdb| lzz| aya| qev| ipb| qzv| ecw| tmn| akv| mue| hvs| zxe| rct| cxu| shl| ocy| sig| riw| mdf| ldv| ihm| iai| fis| xhc| vbj| fow|