Memphis - Policemen outside the Lorraine Motel the night of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1968. (Digital Image © 2011, University of Memphis Libraries Preservation and Special Collections Department.)
The Lorraine Motel is now part of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, TN
We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement National Register Travel Itinerary
Civil Rights Leader Cornelia Crenshaw Speaks at Civil Rights Rally in Forrest City Arkansas, September 14, 1969/ Press Scimitar
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Martin Luther King, Jr. among civil rights marchers in Memphis, April 1968. (National African American Photographic Archive (NAAPA), University Libraries' Digital Repository Digital Image © 2011, University of Memphis Libraries Preservation and Special Collections Department.)