The National Civil Rights Museum

Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in downtown Memphis on April 4 1968. The room where he died, 306, and the adjoining room 307 were withdrawn from use and maintained as a memorial to the activist leader. Today the motel and the boarding house across the road from which the fatal bullet was fired are part of the large complex that is the civil rights museum. The museum timelines the history of black Americans from Africa as a saleable commodity in the slave trade, their struggle and their fight for freedom and true equality. The multi-media displays are extensive and powerful. It took us close to five hours to see in the museum. The last exhibits were rushed a little as we were on overload.Leia mais