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

It's April 3, 1968, Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. It's occupant: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., on 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 ...

Memphis lawyer Mike Cody had a decades-long career as one of the most influential, respected and progressive public figures ...

Put on your blue suede shoes and board the plane to Memphis, Tennessee — a soulful southern city in the midst of a creative ...

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 ...

bullet smashed his jaw (the pulpit for his words). Throats filled with the blues mourned that night all through Memphis, and the Mississippi wailed. The words of “Sweet Lorraine” were banished from ...

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

The day after he arrived in Memphis, Ray, a small-time thief, would stand in a bathtub at a flophouse across the street from the Lorraine Hotel and fire one shot at civil rights icon Martin Luther ...

King was shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel downtown April 4, 1968, while in Memphis supporting striking sanitation workers. “I think it's important that we tell the story of civil rights ...

The story takes place in one night on April 3, 1968 when 'an exhausted Dr. King retires to his room at the Lorraine Motel in ...

This is one of the top things to do in Memphis with kids. Located at 149 Union Ave. Start at the courtyard in front of the ...