Delivered at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 3, 1968, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s final speech. This monumental address focused on the Memphis Sanitation Strike, which began that February in response to the deaths of two sanitation workers, and Dr. King calls for unity and nonviolent protest. Most famously, the speech concludes with words that prophetically foreshadowed the civil rights leader’s untimely death the following day.