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A tragic landmark in the civil rights movement, the Lorraine Motel in Memphis is best known for what occurred there on April 4, 1968. As he stood on the balcony of Room 306, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, ending a golden age of nonviolent resistance, and sparking riots in more than one hundred cities. Formerly a seedy, segregated motel, and prior to that a brothel, the motel quickly achieved the status of national shrine. The motel attracts a variety of pilgrims—white politicians seeking photo ops, aging civil rights leaders, New Age musicians, and visitors to its current incarnation, the National Civil Rights Museum. A moving and emotional account that comprises a panorama of voices, Room 306 is an important oral history unlike any other.
- Sales Rank: #1758860 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-03-15
- Released on: 2012-03-15
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
. . . an extremely personal view of the tragic, yet ultimately triumphant, account of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
—Clayborne Carson, Professor & Director, Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute
With this unforgettable book, Ben Kamin again shows us why he is the singular narrator of the Memphis and civil rights saga. This is a story that has to be told, and only Kamin could have done it so patiently and faithfully.
—T. George Harris, former Bureau Chief of TIME-LIFE, past Senior Editor of LOOK, founding Editor of Psychology Today and Spirituality and Health
A great contribution to the literature on the subject.Kamin does a masterful job of using the oral history tradition to bring fresh context to one of America’s greatest tragic events. The reader will be enlightened, inspired, and motivated to continue the struggle for freedom and justice.
—Donald W. Murphy,former President and CEO of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
A worthy and well-timed project and a prime subject for an oral history.
—Hampton Sides, author of Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
About the Author
Ben Kamin is a nationally known clergyman, teacher, counselor, and author of eight books on human values, civil rights, and spirituality.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
That was then...and is unfortunately NOW in US race relations
By Laura
While my title is sort of an existential construct, it is meant to convey something essential about Ben Kamin's new book: What he writes about the Lorraine Motel, site of the murder of Martin Luther King, and about the struggle of so many strong people to put an end to racial prejudice in the self-proclaimed cradle of freedom in the modern world, is precisely what we need now. So, that WAS then, but it is also now. In addition, Room 306 is a piece of writing that perfectly delivers on every score; facts, emotion, logic, humanity, spirituality. Indeed, never has a piece of writing spoken to me more eloquently and cogently than this work. It speaks from Rabbi Ben Kamin's heart, from his wisdom, compassion and capacity for love. And in speaking thus, he perfectly retells the same from the hearts of all of MLK's followers who were in Memphis on the fatal evening of April 4, 1968.
The Rev. James Lawson, a Methodist follower of King's (King was Baptist) and one of the "three princes" along with Billy Kyles and Benjamin Hooks, has seemed to secret himself away from even visiting the Lorraine Motel, now the National Civil Rights Museum. Lawson spent time in India when he was young, is highly educated, extremely thoughtful, and a committed exponent of non-violence.Still, it seems odd that he would divorce himself, seemingly, from an essential part of his life and influence. Kamin wrote, "Perhaps he still hears Gandhi whispering in his ear and just needs to spin his yarn in silence."
It is this level of beautiful prose and deep understanding that informs Kamin's book.
But he also expresses, in an almost understated way that is all the more powerful, the egregious acts of hatred that resulted in King's being in Memphis on April 4, 1968. I had forgotten, if I ever really knew, what led to the marches in Memphis, creating the prime reason King was in the area at all. The Memphis garbage collection employees were both white and black men. When it rained hard, as it often does in the delta city, the white men had indoor lounges to use to wait it out. Not so for the blacks. During one particularly vicious storm, two men, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, decided to try to stay dry inside a "weiner barrel" type of garbage truck. Lightning struck the vehicle, causing the apparatus to malfunction...crushing the men to death amid the decaying chicken carcasses, pet excrement and filth generated in a pre-ecologically minded population. The city of Memphis did no more than offer the families $500 toward funeral expenses.
I'm sure I did not know that. I did like Martin Luther King, a fact I expressed in high school and which, with my admiration for Malcolm X as well, resulted in my mother being harangued by the John Birch Society. (She told them to shut up and hang up.) I was in college when Martin Luther King was killed, had just gotten married as well, and had other things on my mind for a few years. Because of that, and of being white, growing up in the white areas of New York City and on lily white Long Island, but being raised more equality-minded than most, and going to a very liberal college, I missed most of the nitty-gritty of what was happening in the late 1960s regarding race relations. (The Vietnam thing I got; friends' boyfriends were being called up and some didn't come back. In short, it was very close to home.)
Now that I have read this marvelously lyrical, but eminently powerful, chronicle of one single night in the history of US race relations, I would suggest every American read it, and citizens of other nations as well. Americans need to reawaken, as I did; citizens of other nations who don't really understand the American race issue might begin to get it, at least a bit.
It seems to me, especially on the heels of the universal enslavement of all Americans to a greedy financial system and a morally bankrupt government, that this book is absolutely necessary. It is essential reading TODAY. It is a blueprint for how we need to be feeling now, and what we might do (marches, non-violence of the Occupy kind) to prevent further enslavement of us all. But most of all, to reclaim ground lost as bigoted governments in several states--including, shamefully, northern ones--systematically try to rollback universal suffrage, affecting most grievously the very populations Martin Luther King's followers got onto the voter roles in the late 1960s. In such places, the forces that brought an end to Martin Luther King's life--but thankfully not to his dream and his influence--are ascendant. If you read this book, you will not want to accept that state of affairs and, if you are a decent sort, will do whatever you can (non-violently, of course) to see that King's death was not in vain.
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Review of Room 306 by Ben Kamin
By Alan Wieder
Room 306: the National Story of the Lorraine Motel
Ben Kamin -- from Alan Wieder's streetpixxwords.blogspot.com
Skillfully crafted, Room 306, using oral history, tells a part of the incredible story of the Lorraine Motel, the cite of Martin Luther King's assassination, and the creation of the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine. Kamin, who penned Nothing Like Sunshine: A Story in the Aftermath of the MLK Assassination in 2010, is creative in both his choice of topic and construction of the story. Room 306 connects Martin King and the civil rights movement to the continuing struggles fighting class disparity and racism; and Kamin does it through the efforts in Memphis and throughout the United States to keep the good works of King and The Movement alive.
Each chapter of Room 306 is formed through an oral history of someone who was either at the Lorraine Motel the night of the assassination, or was/is directly involved in the making and administrating of the National Civil Rights Museum. Beginning with some history of King and the Memphis strike (the reason Martin Luther King was in the city) as well as a touch of MLK's relationship with Ralph Abernathy, chapters include the stories, chronologically, of Memphis pastor Billy Kyles, local lawyers Lucius Burch and Charles Newman, Kentucky legislator Georgia Davis Powers, the incredible non-violent activist James Lawson, NAACP leader Maxine Smith, D'Army Bailey, the founder of the Museum, Pitt Hyde, the funder of the Museum, and civil rights photographer, Ernest Withers. There are also chapters for Julian Bond, Clay Carson, Beverly Robertson who presently leads the Museum, and more. The essence of Kamin's book, however, is not in the list of people whose stories he tells, but rather in the connection of their humanity, however flawed, to the day that Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered, and continuing his legacy and the fight against race disparity and racism through the stories told at the National Civil Rights Museum.
Ben Kamin was a rabbi in Cleveland, Ohio at one point in his life and he befriended Louis Stokes, long time Ohio representative in Congress. At one point Stokes said, "Ben Kamin can talk to anybody about anything." But more importantly for this book, Ben Kamin can listen and treat the people who let him into their lives with calm analysis that is true to their stories. There are controversial issues within the stories told in Room 306, but Kamin is able to tell them in a poignant, yet non- judgmental way. He is gentle as he writes about Dr. King's lover, just as he is when he reports on Museum controversies. Most importantly, in the tradition of the greatest, oral historian, Studs Terkel, he allows people to tell their own stories, the stories that they want to tell. In doing so, Ben Kamin tells a human side of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and his continuing light through the National Civil Rights Museum.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
"I've Been to the Mountaintop"
By Kimarie
In his latest book, "Room 306: The National Story of the Lorraine Motel", it cannot be disputed that Rabbi Ben Kamin is a dedicated MLK researcher. This latest journey takes the reader back to a time of turmoil, despair, hope and passion. Ben places you there, down to the interior description of "Room 306". From the author's interview of MLK's lover Georgia Davis, the Memphis boycott and all that it meant to be a black man in the south, to the Reverend Billy Kyles who was on the balcony a few feet away from the fatal shot that killed Dr. King, this book reveals moments in history that need to be told and retold.
I had the great opportunity to hear the author, Rabbi Ben Kamin give a presentation in person last year at Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio. It was at this lecture that I became enthralled with the subject of Dr. Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement.
Rabbi Kamin will broaden the reader's understanding of the world of Dr. Martin Luther King and the society that enveloped his mission.
Ben Kamin writes with great passion and knowledge about a time in history that should not and will not be forgotten. The research on this project is evident, the facts are pure, and the pages did not turn fast enough as I traveled through Memphis with the author.
Rabbi Kamin's "Room 306: The National Story of the Lorraine Motel" is the epitome of American history and a must read.
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