National Civil Rights Museum
For a look at our nation’s monumental civil rights history, guests of the Crowne Plaza Memphis Downtown Hotel will find the National Civil Rights Museum, 1.5 miles from the hotel.
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On April 4, 1968, the Lorraine Motel, in the south-end of downtown Memphis, would be forever-etched in the minds of Americans, as the place where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. The motel’s owner kept a couple of rooms as a shrine to Dr. King.
A group of prominent Memphians were concerned that the historic site would be destroyed from neglect and formed the Martin Luther King Memorial Foundation to save the motel.
The Foundation would go on to start the nations’s first comprehensive exhibit chronicling America’s civil rights movement.
Nearly $9 million dollars were raised to create and construct a civil rights center within the Lorraine Motel designed to help visitors understand the history and lessons of the Civil Rights Movement in America.
There is 12,800 square feet of exhibition space that connects the main campus of the Museum to the Young and Morrow building and the Main Street Rooming House where James Earl Ray allegedly fired the fatal shot.
Also included is an overview of some of the world’s most crucial human rights movements and the achievements gained by individuals who stood by their convictions.
For more information and hours, visit the National Civil Rights Museum website link at the bottom of this page.
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