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2. List of African American hotels, motels, and boarding houses

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   The Green Book (1936–1966) was a guidebook for African American travelers and included hotel, motel, and boarding house listings where they could stay. [ 1 ] Alabama

3. Motel 6 - Wikipedia

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   Motel 6 is an American chain of motels with locations in the United States and Canada. The chain was founded in Santa Barbara, California, in 1962 by William W. Becker and Paul Greene, and derives its name from the fact that rooms initially cost only six dollars. Motel 6 also operates Studio 6, a chain of extended-stay hotels.

4. A.G. Gaston Motel - Wikipedia

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   The A.G. Gaston Motel is a historic building and former motel in Birmingham, Alabama. [1] [2] In 1963 during the Civil Rights movement, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference used a room in the hotel as their headquarters, which was later bombed by terrorists.

5. Birmingham riot of 1963 - Wikipedia

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   At 11:58 p.m., a bomb thrown from a moving car detonated immediately beneath Room 30 at the Gaston Motel—the room where Martin Luther King had been staying. The Gaston Motel was owned by A. G. Gaston, an African-American businessman who often provided resources to assist the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights.

6. Wigwam Motel - Wikipedia

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   The Wigwam Motels, also known as the "Wigwam Villages", is a motel chain in the United States built during the 1930s and 1940s. The rooms are built in the form of tipis, mistakenly referred to as wigwams. [3] It originally had seven different locations: two locations in Kentucky and one each in Alabama, Florida, Arizona, Louisiana, and California.

7. Tom Bodett - Wikipedia

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   Bodett was also featured on the first Motel 6 podcast, released for the holidays. In November 2015, a new marketing campaign featuring Bodett's voice premiered, highlighted by TV and radio commercials touting the investment in and renovation of Motel 6 properties nationwide.