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Room 306: The National Story of the Lorraine Motel

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A tragic landmark within the civil rights movement, the Lorraine Motel in Memphis is easiest known for what occurred there on April 4, 1968. As he stood at the balcony of Room 306, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was once assassinated, ending a golden age of nonviolent resistance, and sparking riots in multiple hundred cities. Formerly a seedy, segregated motel, and prior to that a brothel, the motel quickly achieved the status of national shrine. The motel attracts plenty of pilgrims—white politicians in the hunt for photo ops, aging civil rights leaders, New Age musicians, and visitors to its current incarnation, the National Civil Rights Museum. A moving and emotional account that accommodates a panorama of voices, Room 306 is crucial oral history unlike some other.

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