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Civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King Jr. stayed in Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel in early April 1968, while working to organize protests around the ongoing Memphis sanitation strike. While standing on the balcony outside his room on the evening of April 4, King was shot once in the face by an unseen assassin.
Saint Joseph Hospital was a Catholic operated hospital located at 220 Overton Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee.It is most well known for being the hospital where Martin Luther King Jr. died at 7:05 p.m. on Thursday, April 4, 1968, an hour after he was shot at Lorraine Motel.
Martin Luther King Jr., an American civil rights activist, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m. CST.He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m at age 39.
Martin Luther King III speaks at a press conference for the ‘Just Majority’ campaign bus tour outside of the Shelby County Courthouse in Downtown Memphis, Tenn., on Friday, June 9, 2023.
MEMPHIS − Fifty-plus years have passed, but the memories are present. It was 1963 when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered "I Have a Dream," one of the most famous speeches in American history ...
A half century ago, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Memphis to march in support of the city's striking sanitation workers.
MLK Jr. College Prep closed after the 2023-24 school year, when Memphis Shelby County Schools didn't allow the school to return to the district as a charter school. [4]In November 2024, MSCS allocated an additional $11 million for the replacement school on the site following the failure to get a zoning variance for the planned Cordova high school.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Mason Temple became a critical destination for many civil rights events in Memphis. Martin Luther King Jr., Andrew Young, and Ralph Abernathy were among the many black leaders who came to Memphis to assist the 1,300 protesting sanitation workers who usually met at the church. [2]