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Mlk speech
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mlk speech

It is the hand-written amendments and additions by Dr. Of the sanitation workers’ strike in early 1968. That issue would bring him to Memphis three years later in support He was soon to redirect his efforts to tackling the socio-economic challenges of povertyĪmong black people. King was in Chicago to join the fight against segregated housing and To do, especially in the areas of inequality of employment, education and housing. Rights Act of 1964 and the forthcoming Voting Rights Act. Had helped white churches to realize their responsibility and had led to the Civil King noted that the recent protests in Selma and Birmingham, Alabama, and in Mississippi Law were important but the hardest task was to change people’s thinking and that wasĭr. Many white churches had supported historically. Role to take the moral lead and condemn racial segregation and discrimination, which To join with the black churches in the civil rights movement. The topic “Man in a Revolutionary World” and in the speech he urged the white churches

mlk speech

King was invited by the predominately-white United Church of Christ to speak on McWherter Library in March and April 2018 as part of the fiftieth anniversaryĭr. Fogelman graciously allowed the speech to be displayed in the university’s Fogelman, the prominent Memphis philanthropist and supporter of the University Hand-written corrections and additions by Dr. A copy of the twenty-page typed text, with Martin Luther King, Jr., addressed the fifth General Synod of












Mlk speech