In Our Own Defense co-hosts Dr. Dolores Tarver and Attorney A.D. Winters are on location at the Lorraine Motel—National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, TN discussing the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We encourage you to consider the significance of this hotel not as just the place of Dr. King’s assassination, but as a representation of the type of economic empowerment that Dr. King encouraged in the black community. The hotel was purchased by a Walter Bailey, a black man business owner, in 1945. “Now these are some practical things that we can do. We begin the process of building a greater economic base. Be concerned about your brother. You may not be on strike. But either we go up together, or we go down together.”
