Martin Luther King’s final speech: ’I’ve been to the mountaintop’

Martin Luther King was assassinated 50 years ago. This is the powerful, prophetic speech he made to a packed church in Memphis, Tennessee, on 3 April 1968, just a day before he was assassinated. King called for unity, economic actions, boycotts and non-violent protests, while challenging the US to live up to its ideals. In the speech, he talks about the possibility of an untimely death Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► Martin Luther King’s last 31 hours: the story of his final prophetic speech ► See all our coronavirus coverage ► Support the Guardian ► Today in Focus podcast ► The Guardian YouTube network: The Guardian ► Guardian Football ► Guardian Sport ► Guardian Culture ►