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Mountaintop

Ralph Abernathy (right) applauds Martin Luther King, Jr. as he delivers the "Mountaintop" speech at Memphis's Mason Temple.
Creator: Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007
Date: 1968-04-03
Source: I Am a Man: Photographs of the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Citation
Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007, “Mountaintop,” I Am A Man, accessed April 2, 2025, https://projects.lib.wayne.edu/iamaman/items/show/189.