Burial Mound

Historical marker location:

1600 Cherokee Boulevard Southwest, Knoxville, Tennessee

( Marker is on Cherokee Boulevard Southwest, 0.1 miles north of Kenesaw Avenue, in the median.)

Marker installed: 2000

The city of Memphis, Tennessee, was the site of the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. The Lorraine Motel, where Dr. King was staying, is now the National Civil Rights Museum.