Talk:National Civil Rights Museum

Proposed merger

The National Civil Rights Museum and Lorraine Motel articles are both short stubs about the same building. Both essentially contain the same information, so it seems reasonable to me to merge the two articles, with one left as a redirect to the other. I suggest that the article be at National Civil Rights Museum as that is the current name of the building. JeremyA 19:30, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

I disagree. The Lorraine Motel is still the Lorraine Motel and should stand alone from the NCRM. Since their histories differ, we should try to expand the stubs instead of making a messier stub. SportingFlyer 01:47, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

The Lorraine Motel is not still the Lorraine Motel; it is now the National Civil Rights Museum. To paraphrase the current articles Lorraine Motel says that it was a Motel that is now the National Civil Rights Museum, whereas National Civil Rights Museum states that it is a museum that used to be the Lorraine Motel. JeremyA 23:49, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

I think that the two should be merged. The Lorraine Motel did not have any historical significance until the assassination of MLK, and the little bit of information here on the hotel could easily and briefly be summed up on the National Civil Rights Museum Page, which needs to be greatly expanded. I agree with the redirect idea. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.107.108.149 (talk • contribs)

Merge them, if a user looks up the motel it should lead to National Civil rights museum. their histories are not seperate, theyre the same because the building is the same, just a name change in the building doesnt warrent a different article about the the same thing. Barcode 17:15, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Protest of Jacqueline Smith

Shouldn't somebody mention that little old lady who lived in the Lorraine Motel and was kicked out to make the museum and sat in front of it protesting for years? Did she die eventually? It's been quite a while since I've been to Memphis. 84.12.85.141 21:38, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

she's still protesting, i went downtown a few weeks ago and she had some signs up, along with anti-gentrifaction labels Barcode 21:46, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Her name is Jacqueline Smith, and she is still protesting at the site. I saw her and spoke with her last weekend. I think the protest should be mentioned, but I don't want to add it to the article unless others agree. Danahuff 04:55, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

>>I agree about the need to allow discussion on some of the controversy behind the building of the museum, speaking as someone with a Masters Degree in Industrial Archaeology & a MA (1st) in Social & Political Science. Indeed I blogged the subject and tried to add that to the list of external links but was refused under Wikipedia rules. [Stuart Glendinning Hall http://www.stuart-hall.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/31/1738108.html], 19 April 2007.