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Author Kamin, Ben.

Title Room 306 : the national story of the Lorraine Motel / Ben Kamin
Published East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 186 pages)
Contents Introduction: The Motel at Mulberry and Main -- pt. 1. The History -- The King-Abernathy Suite : Billy Kyles -- Lawyer at the Lorraine : Lucius Burch -- Lover at the Lorraine : Georgia Davis Powers -- Mighty Reverend at the Lorraine : James Lawson -- pt. 2. The Transition -- Breaking the Barriers : Maxine Smith -- Saving the Lorraine, Losing the Mantle : Judge D'Army Bailey -- Endowing the Lorraine : J.R. "Pitt" Hyde -- The Lorraine Photographer : Ernest C. Withers -- pt. 3. The Rebirth -- It's a Magical Place : Julian Bond -- Filming the Lorraine : Lillian Benson -- Managing the Museum at the Lorraine : Beverly Robertson -- Producing The Witness at the Lorraine : Margaret Hyde -- Room 306 and Today's Young Artists : Craig Alan Edwards and Katori Hall -- They Got It Done : Clayborne Carson -- Afterword: The Rain Are Fallin
Summary "A tragic landmark in the civil rights movement, the Lorraine Motel in Memphis is best known for what occurred there on April 4, 1968. As he stood on the balcony of Room 306, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, ending a golden age of nonviolent resistance, and sparking riots in more than one 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 a variety of pilgrims--white politicians seeking 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 comprises a panorama of voices, Room 306 is an important oral history unlike any other."--Project Muse
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Homes and haunts -- Tennessee -- Memphis
SUBJECT King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 fast
Subject Lorraine Motel (Memphis, Tenn.) -- History
National Civil Rights Museum -- History
SUBJECT Lorraine Motel (Memphis, Tenn.) fast
National Civil Rights Museum fast
Subject African American civil rights workers -- Biography
African Americans -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Biography
Historic hotels -- Tennessee -- Memphis
African Americans -- Museums -- Tennessee -- Memphis
HISTORY -- General.
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
TRAVEL -- Budget.
TRAVEL -- Parks & Campgrounds.
TRAVEL -- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
TRAVEL -- Hikes & Walks.
Buildings
African American civil rights workers
African Americans
Historic hotels
Homes
SUBJECT Memphis (Tenn.) -- Biography
Memphis (Tenn.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Memphis (Tenn.) -- History
Subject Tennessee -- Memphis
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781609173432
1609173430
9781628961096
1628961090