Lorraine Motel Memphis, Tennessee
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- c. 1925
- Construction of the Windsor Hotel (later the Lorraine Motel), a whites-only establishment with 16 rooms
- 1945
- Black businessman Walter Bailey and his wife Loree purchase the Marquette Hotel, renaming it the Lorraine, add second floor and drive-up access, and open it to black travelers
- 4 Apr 1968
- Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis