The Man Who Had A Dream

Memphis isn't only famous for it's music. For a fairly small town, it certainly has a lot of history.
It was also the place where Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated 40 years ago. He was shot on the balcony of a very ordinary looking motel. The motel he was staying in in Memphis, while visiting to lead a march of sanitation workers protesting against low wages and poor working conditions

Part of the Lorraine Motel has been preserved. The rest has been incorporated into the National Civil Rights Museum. Nowadays it makes for a surreal memorial. The surrounding areas have been changed (Memphis itself is undergoing a huge regeneration), but there is still a tiny time warp of a motel that anyone can pass by, complete with 1960s in the forecourt. In some ways it almost looks like a film set stuck in the middle of a back lot somewhere, and yet it is painfully real.