Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last Speech

On April 4, 1968, 42 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. The day before, he gave a prophetic speech in support of the Memphis sanitation workers union on strike in a struggle to be treated with decency. Here is perhaps the most amazing excerpt from that speech:


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