The National Civil Rights Museum, at the Lorraine Hotel, Memphis.

Without doubt, as far as I was concerned, the most seminal part of the whole trip was the visit to the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis. The fact that it was located in the old Lorraine Hotel where Martin Luther King Jr last stayed makes the impact all the more poignant. We were so moved by the experienced that we donated money to install a brick in the courtyard of the Museum (where the gentleman in the white jacket is standing in the first photo). This is a very well designed, informative and thought-provoking museum which ought to be on everyone's list to see. The staff are very helpful and friendly and the facilities are excellent. It is a little out of the way from downtown Memphis but is very well worth finding and visiting.

This is a photo record of our visit:

The Lorraine Motel

A wreath marks the spot where MLK Jr stood when he was assassinated

Cars of the period parked outside the motel

The Hotel

Room 306 where MLK Jr stayed

A diorama of Rosa Parks on the bus.

The Memphis bus

The driver telling Rosa to move.

The sit-in at the Diner

One of the many very informative panels

A result of some of the protests

...and above, the Sanitation Workers strike in Memphis which brought MLK Jr to Memphis on his fateful last journey.

Did he have a premonition about his death?

The rooms occupied by MLK Jr. when he stayed at the hotel

This is the actual bathroom window where marks made by the gun used were found.

The view from the boarding house across the street from where the shot is thought to have come

The depiction of the Slave Trade

Some of the part of the museum which depicts the slave trade