![]() ![]() gave his “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech to a massive crowd at the Bishop Charles Mason Temple. ![]() He and his group booked rooms at the Lorraine Motel, marketed as a safe and upscale hotel for black travellers during the Jim Crow era. ![]() Memphis, Tennesseeĭr King came to Memphis in April 1968, to prepare for a march to support the city’s striking sanitation workers. You can attend services each Sunday and on the second Sunday of April each year, the church sponsors a speech contest in memory of the Elks’ competition. Today, the First African Baptist Church, founded in 1867, is the oldest black church in Dublin. It was the angriest I have ever been in my life,” Dr King told Alex Haley in a 1965 Playboy interview. “So we stood up in the aisle for the 90 miles to Atlanta. But as Dr King and his teacher travelled on the bus back to Atlanta that night, the driver forced them to give up their seats to white passengers. He was just 15 when he gave that speech, titled “The Negro and the Constitution” as part of an oratorical essay contest that the Elks had sponsored – and he won. You can also see the First African Baptist Church where Dr King gave this speech at the Colored Elks Clubs of Georgia’s state convention on 17 April 1944. Here you can see the Atlanta artist Corey Barksdale’s incredible mural and Freedom Ascension sculpture and hear Martin Luther King’s first public speech. Take a two hour drive from Atlanta to Dublin in Georgia, and you’ll find the Martin Luther King, Jr. ![]()
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