National Civil Rights Museum

The National Civil Rights Museum in 450 Mulberry Street, Memphis (Tennessee ), United States located at the place where in 1968 the attack was carried out on Martin Luther King.

The museum was opened on 28 September 1991. In the 1920 -built building was originally the Lorraine Hotel, where Martin Luther King was living when he was shot on April 4, 1968. The hotel was further operated until 1982. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Foundation purchased the building and began in 1987 to establish the museum.

The exhibition of the museum presents the history of the American civil rights movement represents: the arrival of the first blacks in the British colonies in 1619 to the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968.