FIRST - Civil Rights Museum in the USA - Memphis, Tennessee.
N 35° 08.083 W 090° 03.465
15S E 768084 N 3891946
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel, on April 4, 1968, making it a symbol for the civil rights movement. in 1982 it became America’s FIRST civil rights museum. located in Memphis, Tennessee,
Waymark Code: WMY7NZ
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 05/06/2018
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FIRST - Civil Rights Museum in the USA - Memphis, Tennessee.
The Lorraine Motel - 4E 95 - marker is displayed just to the left of the main 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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