Room 306 [electronic resource] : the national story of the Lorraine Motel / Ben Kamin.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (p. cm.)ISBN:- 9781609173432
- National Civil Rights Museum -- History
- Lorraine Motel (Memphis, Tenn.) -- History
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Homes and haunts -- Tennessee -- Memphis
- African Americans -- Museums -- Tennessee -- Memphis
- Historic hotels -- Tennessee -- Memphis
- African Americans -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Biography
- African American civil rights workers -- Biography
- Memphis (Tenn.) -- History
- Memphis (Tenn.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
- Memphis (Tenn.) -- Biography
- 910.4609768/19 23
- F444.M58 L675 2012
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: The Motel at Mulberry and Main -- pt. 1. The History -- The King-Abernathy Suite : Billy Kyles -- Lawyer at the Lorraine : Lucius Burch -- Lover at the Lorraine : Georgia Davis Powers -- Mighty Reverend at the Lorraine : James Lawson -- pt. 2. The Transition -- Breaking the Barriers : Maxine Smith -- Saving the Lorraine, Losing the Mantle : Judge D'Army Bailey -- Endowing the Lorraine : J.R. "Pitt" Hyde -- The Lorraine Photographer : Ernest C. Withers -- pt. 3. The Rebirth -- It's a Magical Place : Julian Bond -- Filming the Lorraine : Lillian Benson -- Managing the Museum at the Lorraine : Beverly Robertson -- Producing The Witness at the Lorraine : Margaret Hyde -- Room 306 and Today's Young Artists : Craig Alan Edwards and Katori Hall -- They Got It Done : Clayborne Carson -- Afterword: The Rain Are Fallin.
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