The Lorraine Motel - 4E 95 - Memphis, Tennessee, USA. - Tennessee Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

The Lorraine Motel - 4E 95 - marker is displayed just to the left of the entrance to the National Civil Rights Museum, Shelby County Memphis, Tennessee.

Marker Inscription:
"Originally the Windsor Hotel (c. 1925) and later one of only a few hotels for blacks, it hosted such entertainers as Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin, Count Basie, B.B. King, and Nat King Cole. Walter and Loree Bailey bought it in 1942, renaming it the Lorraine. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated outside Room 306 on April 4, 1968, making it a symbol for the civil rights movement. In 1982, a local nonprofit group saved the site from foreclosure for use as America’s first civil rights museum."

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Marker Name: The Lorraine Motel - 4E 95 Marker Location: City Type of Marker: Building Marker Number: 4E 95 Group(s) Responsible for placing Marker: Tennessee Historical Commission

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