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''I've Been To The Mountaintop,'' Address on 4/3/68

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Author
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Place Written
New York, N.Y.
Document Date
1976
Genre
Published speech
Document Type
Document
Type of Writing
Printed -- published
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Author
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Author Dates
1929-1968
Document ID
760000-004
Document Date
1976
Type of Writing
Printed -- published
Document Type
Document
Status
Undecided
Place Written
New York, N.Y.
Genre
Published speech
Document Length
3 pp.
Published In
Flip Schulke, ed. Martin Luther King, Jr, : A Documentary, Montgomery to Memphis. New York: Norton, 1976.
Dates
4/3/1968
Names
Connor, Eugene
Abernathy, Ralph
Euripides
Plato
Socrates
Aristophanes
Aristotle
Luther, Martin
Lincoln, Abraham
Loeb, Harry [Memphis. Office of the Mayor]
Amos (Biblical prophet)
Jesus Christ
Lawson, James M.
Kyles, Billy
Jackson, Jesse
Hooks, Benjamin L. (Benjamin Lawson)
King, Coretta Scott
Curry, Izola
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines)
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald)
Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich) [New York. Office of the Governor]
Organizations
Bishop Charles Mason Temple (Memphis, Tenn.)
Memphis. Office of the Mayor
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church (Birmingham, Ala.)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Coca-Cola
Sealtest Milk
Wonder Bread
Hartz Bread
Tri-State Bank
New York. Office of the Governor
White Plains High School
Places
Memphis, Tenn.
Johannesburg, South Africa
Nairobi, Kenya
Accra, Ghana
Atlanta, Ga.
Jackson, Miss.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Los Angeles, Calif.
Birmingham, Ala.
Albany, Ga.
Selma, Ala.
Topics
Emancipation Proclamation
Bible, O.T.
Afro-Americans - Civil rights
Afro-Americans - Economic conditions
Albany Movement
Birmingham, 1963
Civil Rights Act, 1964
Economic development
Labor Movement
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Assassination
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Public Speaking
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Threats/attacks against
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Travels
Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike
Nonviolence
Parables
Selma-Montgomery Rights March, 1965
Other Topics
Amos 5:24
Luke 4:18
Emancipation Proclamation
We Shall Overcome
Luke 15:11-32
Declaration of Independence
U.S. Constitution
New York Times Company
Code for Location of Original
MLKJP-GAMK
Location of Original
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers (Series I-IV), Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., Atlanta, Ga.
Copy Location (1)
MLKPP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Date Created
4/29/1996 12:00:00 AM
Date Verified
05/15/1996
Date Updated
5/20/2010 1:10:08 PM
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