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...
Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'” ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech Text I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. ...
which prompted him to scrap the speech he had planned and improvise. The candidate wanted to discuss King’s death, since the public wasn’t aware of it yet. Robert F. Kennedy persuades his audience to act responsibly after the assassination of MLK Jr. by discussing MLK’s legacy, by enc...
The Brooklyn Academy of Music hosted its39th Annual Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.The free event began at 10:30 a.m. Monday and included a keynote speech by Carlotta Walls LaNier of the Little Rock Nine, a presentation by Ailey II, a performance by ...
Robert F. Kennedy, then a New York senator, was fatally shot on June 5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles moments after giving his victory speech for winning California’s Democratic presidential primary. His assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, was convicted of first-degree murder and is serv...
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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. ...
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. Maurice Sorrell/Ebony Collection/AP Images So after the incident on the plane, with the bomb threat that seemed to be aimed ...
Robert F. Kennedy, then a New York senator, was fatally shot on June 5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles moments after giving his victory speech for winning California’s Democratic presidential primary. His assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, was convicted of first-degree murder and is serv...
In the spring of 1968, a labor strike by Memphis, Tennessee, sanitation workers drew King to one last crusade. On April 3, 1968, he gave his final and what proved to be an eerily prophetic speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” in which he told supporters, “Like anybody, I wo...