Serving Metropolitan Detroit Since 1944
Serving Metropolitan Detroit Since 1944
Members of Civil Rights organizations gathered at the Loraine Motel outside of room 306. A wreath hangs at the place where Dr. King was assassinated..
Members of National Action Network were joined with other Civil Rights Activist and family of Dr. King gathered to Recommit to his dream on the 40th Anniversary of his death
Martin Luther King Jr., an African-American clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m. CST. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he died at 7:05 p.m. He was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was known for his use of nonviolence and civil disobedience.
James Earl Ray, a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary, was arrested on June 8, 1968, at London's Heathrow Airport, extradited to the United States and charged with the crime. On March 10, 1969, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 99 years in the Tennessee State Penitentiary.
King participated in a massive march in Memphis on March 28, 1968, which ended in violence.[9] On April 3, King returned to Memphis to attempt a successful new march later that week. His airline flight to Memphis was delayed by a bomb threat,
King's widow, Coretta, had difficulty informing her children that their father was dead. She received a large number of telegrams, including one from Lee Harvey Oswald's mother that she regarded as the one that had touched her the most.
The National Civil Rights Museum is located at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN,
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