Marching to Freedom Author:Robert M. Bleiweiss "I've been to the mountaintop...and I've looked over and I've seen the promised land." — "It is no longer a question of violence or nonviolence in this day and age. It is nonviolence or nonexistence.." — Martin Luther King, Jr., was speaking before 2,000 Memphis Negroes in Memphis's Mason Street Temple on April ... more »3, 1968. He was in Memphis to assist a strike that would give Negro municipal workers equal treatment and equal wages - and to prepare for his cherished Poor People's March on Washington. He spoke of the threats on his life.
"But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop...I may not get there with you, but I want you to know that we as a people will get to the promised land."
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., friend of all men and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, lay dead with an assassin's bullet in his skill.
This is the story of a great man's life and death.« less