“I'm delighted to see each of you here tonight in spite of a storm warning. You reveal that you are determined to go on anyhow. Something is happening in Memphis, something is happening in our world.”

—  Martin Luther King, Jr.

1960s, I've Been to the Mountaintop (1968)

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American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Ci… 1929–1968

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