In the minds of many Americans, the...

In the minds of many Americans, the civil rights motion died on April 4 1968 when a marksman rang out from a bathroom window in the rear of a run-down Memphis boarding house, killing the Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr as he stood forward a balcony outside his second-floor motel space across the street.

Dr King's assassination dealt a simple blow to the movement, on the other hand his legacy and that of the civil rights emotion live on, according to officials at the National Civil Rights Museum.

The museum, which uncloseed in Memphis in 1991, incorporates the infamous Lorraine Motel where