We spent Thursday at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, TN. The museum is housed in the former Lorraine Motel, the site of King's assassination on April 4, 1968. The museum is the most comprehensive one on Civil Rights history, and a new addition across the street specifically explores investigations into King's murder.
The second photo here shows Jacqueline Smith, who has sat in protest
against the museum for over 20 years. She argues that to truly preserve and honor King's vision, the motel should have been converted into low-income housing rather than made into a museum for middle-class tourists. She was one of the dozens of people displaced by the construction of the museum. [It was a rundown housing complex at the time.]
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