Visit the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis

The National Civil Rights Museum in Tennessee is located at the Lorraine Motel, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968

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National Civil Rights Museum

The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, was built around the former Lorraine Motel at 450 Mulberry Street, where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. The Lorraine Motel remained open following King's assassination until it was foreclosed in 1982. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Foundation purchased the property at auction in December of that year. Construction of the museum started in 1987, and doors opened to visitors on September 28, 1991.

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