Delivered just a day before King was assassinated in Memphis, this speech was in support of the Memphis Sanitation Strike. In it, King discusses America’s ideals, economic injustice and the ...

And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. – Martin Luther King Jr., "The Death of Evil upon the Seashore," sermon given at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City, May ...

For more about the strike, read Michael K. Honey's Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign or watch the documentary At the River I Stand.

Martin Luther King's creed of non-violence surprised many Americans. Though conceding that King's methods were effective, black psychologist Kenneth Clark called the philosophy of loving one's ...

Because on Martin Luther King Day, while we’re here with this wonderful children’s choir — he’d be in Washington saying ‘What are y’all going to do?’” At the end of his sermon ...

Martin Luther King Jr., "The Death of Evil upon the Seashore," sermon given at the Cathedral of St. John the ... D.C. - 1968 National Museum of African American History and Culture Chromogenic print ...