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Written by Black Hot Fire Network on October 22, 2024
Tennessee/Pennsylvania/North Carolina: In 1968, a 39-year old man was shot dead outside Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel. The man was Martin Luther King Jr, in Memphis, a town in the Deep South at the intersection of Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi that had once been a major slave market, to march with sanitation workers.
Outside room 306 in Lorraine Motel, Memphis, where Martin Luther King Jr was shot. The site is now a national civil rights museum. (HT Photo)
Today, the motel has been converted into the National Civil Rights Museum. Being . . .
