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April 3, 1968: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his last public speech, on the day before his assassination, at Bishop Charles Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee. A thunderstorm raged outside. He was not feeling well. He asked Rev. Ralph Abernathy to fill in for him that evening, but attendees refused to accept the substitution and Dr. King delivered.

Citations: Jonathan Eig, King: A Life (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), 648-652, Kindle edition; Martin Luther King, Jr., “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” in A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., eds. Clayborne Carson and Kris Shepard (New York: Warner Books, 2001), https://archive.org/details/calltocon... Jim Roberts, “Mason Temple, Church of God in Christ,” photograph (Memphis, TN, April 8, 2017), Creative Commons, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi....