Blocks away from the funky music of Beale Street, on the south edge of downtown Memphis, sits the two-story Lorraine Motel. Built in the 1920s, the motel on Mulberry Street has gone through some ...
Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. It is family vacation time in African America. A few years back, my kids ...
When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed while standing on a balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Motel on April 4, 1968, Jesse Jackson was in the courtyard below. The young, ...
The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn., built around the former Lorraine Motel where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, serves as a solemn and powerful tribute to the struggle ...
MEMPHIS — At the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis one September day, tourists paused solemnly before a group of life-size statues, some crafted in Tennessee National Guard ...
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