Lorraine Motel

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Address

450 Mulberry St St, Memphis, TN 38103

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Phone

(901) 521-9699

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Website

civilrightsmuseum.org

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Overview

cultural

educational

The Lorraine Motel is one of the most important landmarks of the American Civil Rights Movement.

notwaitingtolivenotwaitingtolive

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Memphis, Tennessee

MorrisMorris

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On the evening of April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr., the iconic leader of the American civil rights movement, was fatally shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, at the age of 39. On August 28, 1963, King delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial, which galvanized the passage of the Civil Rights Act, outlawing racial segregation and discrimination. His assassin, James Earl Ray, was swiftly apprehended and sentenced to 99 years in prison, where he later died of illness. Under public pressure, the U.S. government reopened the investigation a decade after King’s assassination, concluding that his death was the result of a carefully planned conspiracy—though the specific conspirators could not be identified. In January 1986, President Reagan signed a bill establishing the third Monday of January as Martin Luther King Jr. Day, one of only three federal holidays honoring an individual—the others being Columbus Day and Washington’s Birthday (George Washington’s Birthday). #MartinLutherKing #CivilRights #IHaveADream #History #MLKDay

TonyTony

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Second Visit to the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, the Site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Assassination

CathleenCathleen

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Memphis

MontyMonty

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This review is only to be clear about a particular worker at the Civil Rights Museum of the Lorraine Motel. As the Museum itself is well worth the visit and the price of admission. It's difficult enough to have lived during the tail end of the Civil Rights Movement (CRM), I still remember it as being a traumatic time in my life. That being said, I visited the Lorraine Motel Civil Rights Museum on Oct 6th 2022 and it was very well organized, with spoken information booths scattered around the Lorraine Motels historical spots/areas. The only and most egregiously thong to happen was the guard/security woman with the most God awful wig I've ever seen on a woman. This security guard took it upon herself to dislike me and conducted herself in the most unprofessional way she could think of. She wouldn't speak a word of direction and just seemed to be full of hate for me and my fellow US Naval veteran. I asked her wher the gift shop was located and she pointed in the general direction, actually she half waved in the direction of the gift shop. Because there are several doorways and a flight if steps in the direction in which she waived, I asked for clarification of her direction and she simply waived in the direction again. No one is going to want to drive 6hrs as we did to get treated in a condensending and unprofessional manner. We never understood why she was so irritated by our presence nor do we need to. Some people are just angry at their race and she fit the bill to a tee. So I still reccomend that anyone inclined to visit this museum in Memphis Tenn, just ignor the ignorant security guard with the king blond wig as we tried our best to. She also spoke disrespectful at us, indirectly that is. But her ignorance was on full display, very unprofessional of her.

Eugene HillEugene Hill

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