On April 4, 1968, shortly after 6 p.m., Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray while standing on the balcony outside the now memorialized Lorraine Motel room 306. In the early months of 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. worked on a campaign to lobby on behalf of the poor. While planning a march in Washington, D.C. to urge Congress to pass further Civil Rights legislation, King was called to Memphis, Tennessee to assist in a sanitation workers’ strike. African American san
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On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated while standing on a balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN. Dr. King was shot just after 6 PM. The Lorraine is now the National Civil Rights Museum. Here’s a look at the site today. | CBS Newspath
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Flashback# September 2011- I’m standing in front of the Lorraine Motel at the National Civil Rights Museum In Memphis, Tennessee. This is the site of the assassination of the Rev Martin Luther King Jr. April 4, 1968. RIP MLK aka Legend!“Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.”~ Martin Luther King Jr. #picoftheday #jesusislord #jesuschrist #god #quote #inspiration #wordsofwisdom #werisebyliftingothers #mlk #civi
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