On March 31, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. gave what would turn out to be the last Sunday sermon of his life at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
King was in Washington to kick off the Poor People’s Campaign – a grassroots, multiracial call for equity and peace. King had started speaking more pointedly about economic justice and an end to the war in Vietnam, positions that threatened the mainstream political establishment.
Francis B. Sayre Jr., the dean of the National Cathedral and grandson of the notoriously segregationist President Woodrow Wilson, opposed his grandfather’s stance on race and invited King to speak at the Cathedral. Less than a week later, the National Cathedral held a memorial service for King after the civil rights leader was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
Monday Eight o’Clock Buzz host Brian Standing presents this sermon by Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. on March 31, 1968.
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