A fire that severely damaged a historic Black church that served as the headquarters for a 1968 sanitation workers' strike, ...

Recent travelers agreed the National Civil Rights Museum should be at the top of anyone's list of things to see in Memphis. Housed in the Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was ...

King promised to lead a second, peaceful march in Memphis, but he was shot by a sniper while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel on April 4. After King was assassinated and the strike ...

“People still found their way through tribulation,” said Russell Wigginton, the president of the National Civil Rights Museum, which is housed in the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where King was ...

then past the burnt-out shell of the historic Clayborn Temple before circling back to the Lorraine Motel. Wells herself led the crowd during the final block of the march. "The City of Memphis took ...

a secluded neighborhood that officially became part of the city of Memphis in 1968, the year that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel downtown. While the ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Shelby County District Attorney ... at a rally outside the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel on Thursday, the day after the verdicts were read.

Martin Luther King Jr. was in Memphis supporting the workers’ demands for safer working conditions when he was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel. In Boxtown, Knox has seen echoes of the ...