Related Historical Markers

By Dee Evans, July 2000

Plaque in Front of Motel

SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER

1 ► Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis, Downtown Memphis — 4E 95 — The Lorraine Motel —

Originally the Windsor Hotel (c. 1925) and later one of only a few hotels for blacks, it hosted such entertainers as Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin, Count Basie, B.B. King, and Nat King Cole. Walter and Loree Bailey bought it in 1942, renaming it . . . — — Map (db m82865) HM

2 ► Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis, Colonial Acres — 4E 173 — Tragic Accident Sparks Sanitation Strike —

Side 1 On February 1, 1968, sanitation workers Echol Cole and Robert Walker took shelter from the rain inside their truck's garbage barrel because they had no raincoats. One block south of here, at the corner of Colonial and Verne, the . . . — — Map (db m83491) HM