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 ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stands with other civil rights leaders on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 3, 1968, a day before he was assassinated at ...

I went to the Lorraine Motel and the National Civil Rights Museum for the first time in January, and I can say, without question, it was the most emotional experience I’ve ever had at a museum.

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King was shot on April 4, 1968, while he was standing on the second-story balcony of the Lorraine Motel. The civil rights leader had been in Memphis to support a sanitation workers' strike.

For MLK Day, a tour of the Lorraine Motel evokes anger — but also pride for every gain won in civil rights movement Vincent Goodwill Senior reporter January 17, 2023 at 11:00 PM UTC · ...

The sign is seen outside the Lorraine Motel, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered, and is now part of the complex of the National Civil Rights Museum as they prepare for the 50th ...

This weekend’s production of ‘Lorraine’ in Austell explores a motel most recognized for one date: April 4, 1968.

That was the text message relayed by Andscape’s Marc Spears moments before I took the pilgrimage this week to the National Civil Rights Museum, built on the site of the Lorraine Hotel — the ...

The National Civil Rights Museum at The Lorraine Motel will honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s annual event, Remembering MLK: The Man, The Movement, The Moment, on April 4, the 57th anniversary ...

AUSTELL, Ga. — The story of the historic Lorraine Motel is coming to the stage in Atlanta this Juneteenth weekend. The Memphis landmark is etched in many of memories as the place where Dr ...

In January 2019, I visited the Lorraine Motel for the first time. I had never been to Memphis and there was no way I was going to be in that city and not visit that museum to see the place where ...