Memphis, TN
• We leave our hotel (right across from the Peabody) and walk to the National Civil Rights Museum, which was once the Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968. This museum opened in 1991 and recently expanded across the street to include the building which is believed to be the location from which King’s murderer shot him. This portion of the museum focuses mainly on theories surrounding King's murder.
• After a lengthy museum visit, we gather at our hotel for discussion and then head over to Rhodes College to meet with faculty members there who study the CR movement and who are involved in the Crossroads to Freedom project, an online project that gathers and digitizes primary sources from the local Memphis-area CR movement.
Miles traveled today: Only over to Rhodes and back – how we miss the van!
To date: 850
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