National Civil Rights Museum
The National Civil Rights Museum is a complex of museums and historic buildings in Memphis, Tennessee; its exhibits trace the history of the civil rights movement in the United States from the 17th century to the present. The museum is built around the former Lorraine Motel, which was the site of the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Two other buildings and their adjacent property, also connected with the King assassination, have been acquired as part of the museum complex.
National Civil Rights Museum in 2022
Museum exhibit
Replica of the Greyhound Bus destroyed by white supremacists during the Freedom Rides
The Lorraine Motel is part of the complex of the National Civil Rights Museum. The wreath marks King's approximate place at the time of his assassination.
Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the seat of Shelby County, in the southwesternmost part of the state, and is situated along the Mississippi River. With a population of 633,104 at the 2020 U.S. census, Memphis is the second-most populous city in Tennessee after Nashville.
Image: Memphis from the water 2022j (cropped)
Image: Looking East on Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee, June 2014
Image: Fed Ex Forum at night
Image: Graceland Memphis Tennessee
