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On April 4, 1968, United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York delivered an improvised speech several hours after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Kennedy, who was campaigning to earn the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, made his remarks while in Indianapolis, Indiana, after speaking at two Indiana universities earlier in the day.
On April 8, Kennedy and his wife went, at the request of Coretta Scott King, to Atlanta to attend Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral. [49] That evening he held a meeting with his aides over how to get the attention of middle-class whites weary of the civil rights movement in order to relieve the racial tension in the country. Kennedy returned to ...
"How Long, Not Long" is the popular name given to the public speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. on the steps of the State Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered this speech after the completion of the Selma to Montgomery March on March 25, 1965. [1] The speech is also known as "Our God Is Marching On!" [2]
As riots erupted and smoke billowed from black neighborhoods in the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination, Robert F. Kennedy met with black activists, politicians and celebrities in a hotel ...
But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s best-known speech, which he delivered during the 1963 March on Washington.
SEE MORE: 8 Martin Luther King Jr. quotes that raise eyebrows instead of sanitizing his legacy But August 28 was not the first time King had uttered the most famous four words from his remarks ...
As early as the mid-1950s, Martin Luther King Jr. had received death threats because of his prominence in the civil rights movement. He had confronted the risk of death, including a nearly fatal stabbing in 1958, and made its recognition part of his philosophy. He taught that murder could not stop the struggle for equal rights.
"I Have A Dream" speech – Dr. Martin Luther King with music by Doug Katsaros on YouTube; Deposition concerning recording of the "I Have a Dream" speech; Lyrics of the traditional spiritual "Free at Last" MLK: Before He Won the Nobel; Archived January 18, 2010, at the Wayback Machine – slideshow by Life magazine