Lorraine Motel - Civil Rights Memorials on Waymarking.com

The Lorraine Motel is located at 450 Mulberry Street, and it was here that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Following the assassination the motel remained open but fell on hard time and was foreclosed on in 1982. The property was purchased by the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial foundation at auction in December of that year. In 1987 construction of the museum started, opening its doors to visitors on September 28, 1991. An expansion project in 2001 added the Young and Morrow building and the former rooming house at 418 S. Main St where James Earl Ray allegedly fired the shots that killed King. Today the Lorraine Motel is part of the National Civil Rights Museum and is open to the public.

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