The Street Politics of Jackie Smith

Bridge, Gary (editor) / Watson, Sophie (editor) / Jones, John Paul III (author)

The New Blackwell Companion to the City ; 476-487

Wiley‐Blackwell Companions to Geography

2011-02-25

12 pages

9781444395105 , 9781405189811

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395105.ch42

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

Jackie, asking Memphis residents and visitors ‐ to boycott the museum , the street politics of Jackie Smith ‐ Martin Luther King, Jr., and Jesse Jackson and Ralph Abernathy in Memphis, staying at Black Lorraine Motel , transformation of Lorraine, following King's death ‐ operating as a motel , The National Civil Rights Museum ‐ Jacqueline “Jackie” Smith, protesting against Lorraine's transformation into a museum , King's assassination at the Lorraine, shrine to the fallen civil rights leader ‐ nation's first civil rights museum , Street Politics, Jackie's protest ‐ relevant to nature of politics, space and memory , Jackie's Protest, at several levels ‐ those who cross the street to talk to her, a court injunction not to disrupt museum's operations , historical marker ‐ significance of the Lorraine Motel , Jackie's legacy, not transformation of the Lorraine ‐ critical reflection on politics