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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 ...
Investigators in Tennessee say a fire that severely damaged a historic Black church that served as the headquarters for a ...
They killed the symbol for peace here." The 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at Memphis' Lorraine Motel forever reverberates in the city, perhaps nowhere more visibly than in its ...
“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 ...
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. A fire that severely damaged a historic Black ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.