MLK Jr.-"I've been to the mountaintop"

April 3, 2014: Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I’ve been to the mountaintop” speech in Memphis on April 3, 1968.

King was there to support sanitation workers striking to protest low wages and poor working conditions.

He was assassinated the next day.

Click here to read a full transcript or listen to an audio recording of the speech.

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