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D'Army Bailey led the fight to preserve the crumbling Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated while standing on a balcony on April 4, 1968. The motel became the National Civil Rights Museum in 1991. Photo courtesy Youtube/Library of Congress Channel

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D'Army Bailey, National Civil Rights Museum Promoter, Dies

D'Army Bailey, a lawyer and judge who helped preserve the Memphis hotel where civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and turn it into the National Civil Rights …

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