National Civil Rights Museum Shares History of Tulsa’s Black Wall Street
In April of 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis, Tennessee where he stayed at the Lorraine Motel near downtown. On April 4th, Dr. King was shot and killed - on the hotel’s balcony. Today, the area is like a peek into history.
An old car sits out front and a wreath hangs above the car at the motel. The site is now home to the National Civil Rights Museum, telling the history of the fight for freedom, including the 1921 Race Massacre in Tulsa. A lot of people visit us to see the place where Dr. King was assassinated but what they don t realize is they encounter 400 years of history throughout their journey and their visit, said Dr. Noelle Trent, the museum s Director of Interpretation, Collections and Education.
in his latest On Air in Suffolk column, broadcaster Stephen Foster reflects on a memorable visit to Memphis.
Even if the only thing Memphis had given the.
Foz outside WDIA, one of the most important radio stations in music history.
- Credit: Stephen Foster
in his latest On Air in Suffolk column, broadcaster Stephen Foster reflects on a memorable visit to Memphis.
Even if the only thing Memphis had given the world was Elvis Presley it would still be held in very high esteem by music lovers.
The city’s most famous resident certainly put the place on the pop music map but many years earlier Beale Street had helped give birth to the blues, a genre that received much airplay on the legendary Memphis radio station WDIA which was the first broadcaster in the United States programmed entirely for a black audience.
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