“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”<\/strong><\/p>\nBack in the day on April 3rd, 1968 the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. gave his last speech entitled \u201cI\u2019ve Been to the Mountaintop.\u201d The emblematic civil rights leader was in Memphis, Tennessee at the time to support striking sanitation workers ahead of the planned Poor People\u2019s March on Washington. As scholar Michael Eric Dyson has noted, King had felt tired and gloomy and almost had fellow civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy speak in his place that night. Abernathy, however, successfully encouraged King to come and address the crowd that had gathered to see him. The superb orator then went on to deliver a speech in which he affirmed his principles of non-violence and his happiness with being a part of the history of that moment in time. Coming to masterful crescendo, King\u2019s words publicly jettisoned his fears of death when he ended saying, \u201cI\u2019m not worried about anything. I\u2019m not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n
The very next day an assassin\u2019s bullet silenced the civil rights leader as we as a people have been struggling to get to the promised land ever since.<\/p>\n
For Uprising, this is your truth professa’ saying it’s no mystery why they conceal our people’s history!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"| the entire program “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” Back in the day on April 3rd, 1968 the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. gave his last speech entitled \u201cI\u2019ve Been to the Mountaintop.\u201d The emblematic civil rights leader was in Memphis, Tennessee at the time to support striking sanitation workers ahead of the planned Poor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subversive-historian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a> “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”<\/strong><\/p>\n