Students will read information from the links below (It is enough to choose 1 link to read) and then look at the photo slideshows:
What is the significance of the Lorraine Motel to the Civil Rights Movement?
How does it connect to the Negro Motorist Handbook? (See the bottom of the page.)
The Lorraine Motel & Martin Luther King Jr.
An article that describes the legacy of the Lorraine Motel from the New Yorker in the New Yorker MagazineFrom the National Civil Rights Museum Website, this gives information on the hotel.The Negro Travelers' Green Book: 1959
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "The Negro Travelers' Green Book: 1959" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed February 7, 2020. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/89ed7cc0-8486-0132-e7b6-58d385a7bbd0