There are 5 article(s) tagged Lorraine Motel:

• April 2025

  • Solemn ceremony marks MLK’s death 57 years ago

    Public officials and others gathered at the National Civil Rights Museum Friday evening to commemorate the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at that site on April 4, 1968.

    By Jody Callahan April 04, 2025

• January 2024

  • Martin Luther King Jr. ‘speaks’ at virtual MLK Day event

    The National Civil Rights Museum had planned a large celebration to honor what would have been King’s 95th birthday, but as the weather forecast became clear, they realized they would have to pivot. 

    By Michael Waddell January 16, 2024

• October 2020

  • National Civil Rights Museum hosts Smithsonian ‘Green Book’ exhibit

    “The Negro Motorist Green Book,” a new exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services, begins its public life at the Lorraine Motel, which is one of a shrinking number of “Green Book” locales still in existence. 

    By Chris Herrington October 05, 2020

• August 2019

  • Conaway: Memphis still amazes. It just amazed me.

    A tour bus of folks from Toledo hits the highlights: from the site of the first Piggly Wiggly, to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, to The Peabody. A Memphian along for the ride finds fresh cause for wonder. 

    By Dan Conaway August 16, 2019

• April 2019

  • Jesse Jackson and Stax: The reverend’s largely forgotten link to Memphis

    Rev. Jesse Jackson and Memphis-based Stax Records formed an alliance following Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death here that allowed Jackson to use the record label as a platform to spread the spoken word.

    By Jared Boyd April 14, 2019