In Memphis, an archive of 75,000 photographs offers an intimate look at Black life in the city over four decades—featuring not only glimpses of icons like B.B. King, Mahalia Jackson, and W.C ...

It was a wilderness experience we went through.'' Mt. Olive Cathedral CME Church is just over a mile from the Lorraine Motel. Jackson was standing in the hotel courtyard at 6:01 p.m. April 4 ...

King and some of his friends spent that night at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis and at about six ... He was thirty-nine years old. Mahalia Jackson sang King’s favourite hymn, ‘Take my hand, precious ...

Tokyo, April, 1971: Mahalia Jackson, considered by many to be the best American gospel singer ever, talks to a reporter at her hotel a few hours after she performed for Empress Nagako and other ...

It was around 11 p.m. on the second night of the 1984 Democratic National Convention when the Rev. Jesse Jackson stepped ... on the balcony of Memphis’ Lorraine Motel the day before King ...

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 ...

National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel The deep and somber melody of Mahalia Jackson’s rendition of “Take My Hand, Precious Lord” draws museumgoers down a hallway to glass ...

Mahalia Jackson is having a moment, half a century after her death in 1972. One of the year’s best folk albums, Iris DeMent’s Workin’ on a World, contains the song “Mahalia,” written ...

The other voice, the one King listened to and heeded, belonged to Mahalia Jackson. “A voice like hers comes along once in a millennium,” King once said. But international fame did not make ...

Despite simmering tensions in the wider Civil Rights Movement over King’s advocacy of nonviolent resistance, he remained active until his assassination, in April 1968, by gunman James Earl Ray, at the ...