The University of Memphis does not discriminate against students, employees, or applicants for admission or employment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, disability, age, status as a protected veteran, genetic information, or any other legally protected class with respect to all employment, programs and activities sponsored by the University of Memphis. There is no indication on the speech when and where the amended version was delivered. That he gave similar speeches with amendments to cater to different audiences. King was giving annually at this time, it would not be surprising Speech as a basis for a subsequent speech to another audience. King’s speech published in the proceedings of the synod by the UnitedĬhurch of Christ does not include the annotations, which suggests that he used the The notes end with the rousing words of the civil rights movement, King often liked to use, and which appeared in his famous “Mountaintop” These include extensive notes on the last page with references to passages
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
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
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