In the middle of our week down South, we drove three hours from my parents’ home in northern Alabama to Memphis to visit the ...

Mary Ellen Ford was a 21-year-old cook at Memphis’ Lorraine Motel in April 1968, when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. checked in for the last time. King, who was in town to help lead ...

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 ...

John Krull is director of Franklin College’s Pulliam School of Journalism and publisher of TheStatehouseFile.com, a news ...

On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King while he was standing on a balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, TN. The ensuing manhunt would last more than two months and span five ...

Press the question mark key to get the keyboard shortcuts for changing dates. National Civil Rights Museum - Lorraine Motel $25 $500+ ...

Tragically, on April 4, 1968, Memphis faced a significant loss when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel while in town to support union workers. The site ...

The trip is from Nov. 11 to 15. The tour will visit museums in the cities, as well as the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, the 16th Street Baptist Church and Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham, the Equal ...

On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King while he was standing on a balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, TN. The ensuing manhunt would last more than two months and span five ...

The building was still the Lorraine Motel, a local business straining to keep its doors open surrounded by a neighborhood straining to get back on its feet. King had come to Memphis in the spring ...