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The National Civil Rights Museum at The Lorraine Motel will honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s annual event, Remembering MLK: The Man, The Movement, The Moment, on April 4, the 57th anniversary ...
On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Every year since our opening in 1991, the National Civil Rights Museum ...
Fifty-seven years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Downtown Memphis. While visiting Memphis to support a workers' strike, King was shot and killed outside ...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the towering figure of the civil rights movement, lay mortally wounded on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel. His assassination not only silenced a voice of peace and ...
The government’s secret files on the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. could be released ahead of ...
The ceremony will feature performances, a keynote speaker, and a wreath-laying at the Lorraine Motel balcony. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has been dead almost 60 years, but his philosophy — his ...
April 4 marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. King was in the midst of focusing on the next big step after the civil ...
More than half a century after his death, conspiracy theories about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination ... He was standing on a balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has been dead almost 60 years, but his philosophy — his lifelong commitment to "nonviolent direction action" to effect political change — remains relevant as a ...