Joe Calhoun, photographed at the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, needs no reminders of the 1968 sanitation workers strike. He lived it. (Photo by John ...

Joe Calhoun, photographed at the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, needs no reminders of the 1968 sanitation workers strike. He lived it. (Photo by John ...

Joe Calhoun, photographed at the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, needs no reminders of the 1968 sanitation workers strike. He lived it. (Photo by John ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN. Now the home of ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN. Now the home of ...

MEMPHIS — At the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis one September day, tourists paused solemnly before a group of life-size statues, some crafted in Tennessee National ...

While an early school trip might have increased Austin's awareness of Dr. King's legacy, it wasn't the only thing that ...

but Tennessee authorities refused to reopen the case, according to biography.com and Stanford. The Lorraine Motel is located in Memphis just blocks away from Tommy Lee Park and the Mississippi River.

1968 at the old Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. 'This is intentionally distasteful, dishonoring, deplorable, and disrespectful to my family and my father, who is not here to respond himself ...

Dr. King was shot on April 4, 1968, on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Although James Earl Ray pled guilty to the murder and was sentenced to 99 years in prison, there has ...