“I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.” Just a day before his assassination on April 4th, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke these words in his final spee...
Dr. King fought on, non-violently, for two more years. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968, the day after he gave his moving "Mountaintop" speech in which he told a crowd in Memphis that he'd seen the "Promised Land" of a just country, but tragically predicted: I may not get t...
After the "Dream" speech, Dr. King continued to push for economic reforms that addressed the welfare of all people, most notably in his last book,Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?3 'I Have a Dream' and the Civil Rights Movement Though we commonly refer to it as the "Dre...
WhenMartin Luther King, Jr.delivered his last speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” on April 3, 1968, he said, “Ralph David Abernathy is the best friend that I have in the world.” Ralph Abernathy was a Baptist minister who worked intimately with King during the civil rights moveme...
‘I Have a Dream’ Speech Origins ‘Free At Last’ Mahalia Jackson Prompts MLK: 'Tell 'em About the Dream, Martin' ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech Text MLK Speech Reception 'I Have a Dream' Speech Legacy Sources The “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr. before ...
Jesse Jackson sitting on Martin Luther King Jr.'s right-hand side, while looking over notes before King's famous 'Mountaintop' speech, which would be his last. So after the incident on the plane, with the bomb threat that seemed to be aimed at him, what was Dr. King’s mood...
If MLK were still alive today, "he would be disappointed by our large homeless populations, our failing schools and struggling healthcare system," said Tchanori Kone, a fifth-grade girl from Houston, Texas, in her speech, which won first place last weekend at the Annual Gardere MLK Jr. ...
Nearly a decade later, on April 3, 1968, King spoke of this close call in a dramatic speech to nearly 2,500 people crowded into the Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had come to support striking sanitation workers. Recounting his near-death experience, King said, “I want to...
King Delivers 'I've Been to the Mountaintop' Speech Bettmann Archive/Getty Images One of the last pictures to be taken of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaking to a mass rally on April 3, 1968, in Memphis. King renounced the violence from the March 28 protest, but many of his critics...
the Lincoln Memorial. Marking the 100-year anniversary of Lincoln’s delivery of the Gettysburg Address, King hoped to mend the racial fractures within the country. The crowds had gathered for theMarch on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the platform for his seminal “I Have a Dream” speech...