Exterior view of the second floor balcony with wreath of the Lorraine Motel, where Dr. Martin Luther King was standing when he was assassinated during the Civil Rights Movement on April 4, 1968. The Lorraine Motel is now part of the National Civil Rights Museum complex in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Carol Highsmith, photographer. Photographed: 2006 April 17. 1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color. Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith’s America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010:031).
Lorraine Motel, Memphis, Tennessee
The second floor balcony with wreath of the Lorraine Motel, where Dr. Martin Luther King was standing when he was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Credit: Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division