National Civil Right Museum & Lorraine Motel, Memphis TN
It is built around the former Lorraine Motel at 450 Mulberry Street where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, the National Civil Rights Museum. The exhibits of the museum tell the story of the struggle for African American civil rights from the arrival of the first Africans in the British colonies in 1619 to the assassination of King in 1968, including replicas of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birmingham jail cell and the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, the site of “the last great parade.”
Address: 405 Mulberry Street, Memphis, TN 38103Â USA
Phone: 901-521-9699
Website: www.civilrightsmuseum.org
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