On this date 52 years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. was above the hundreds of people who participated in the historic civil rights march in Selma, Alabama.
Three years later, in March of 1968, he traveled to Memphis, Tennessee, in support of the city's striking sanitation workers. King, who had adopted Mahatma Gandhi's non-violent methods of civil protest, later returned to Memphis on April 3, to address a gathering of members of the Church of God. It was there that he delivered his final speech, "I've been to the mountaintop."
Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968.
- Little Black Book, Diocese of Saginaw