The Untold Story Behind Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Speech

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  • Martin Luther King Jr. built a theme of his "mountaintop" speech around a fan's letter - which has never surfaced until now, 50 years after his death. Photo: AP
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Komentáře • 483

  • @chidexhenry962
    @chidexhenry962 Před 2 lety +7

    Small kindness and concern we show to people when they are in ugly situations matters a lot.

  • @midniteblue3313
    @midniteblue3313 Před 5 lety +184

    I in 2019 am glad that Dr. Martin Luther king jr. Didn't sneeze. His message is as important now as it was then.

    • @torreyize
      @torreyize Před 5 lety +6

      Joel Williams yes racism is worst!!!

    • @a.deewai3181
      @a.deewai3181 Před 5 lety +1

      I agree totally!💖 Who knows you can find yourself in my point of view, a little above yours to be found. 😏 God bless, have a Nice Day🌄‼️

    • @Gwenesis
      @Gwenesis Před 5 lety +1

      Godddd! STOP wp!

    • @kimberleeturner8475
      @kimberleeturner8475 Před 3 lety +1

      Even in 2021. That anointing doesn't wash off with time

  • @marcusmullings9261
    @marcusmullings9261 Před 5 lety +92

    How about they go find the Memphis police sharp shooter that killed king

    • @nanaboroo
      @nanaboroo Před 5 lety

      Marcus Mullings thank Almighty that the shooter is not among the living, no man lives forever. The evil mans do live after them.

    • @NOTTHASAME
      @NOTTHASAME Před 4 lety +13

      He was not that sharp of a shooter , King was alive in the hospital before they smothered him .

    • @a.j.s.8049
      @a.j.s.8049 Před 4 lety

      Judge Joe brown has a video here on CZcams speaking some facts about the trial before Oswald's death in Memphis(A trial that is). Judge Brown being interviewed, dont remember by whom.

    • @smokingyoung2146
      @smokingyoung2146 Před 4 lety +1

      He was not murder by the sharp shooter

    • @sandraatkins2539
      @sandraatkins2539 Před 4 lety

      @Anne Phair Ms. Phair, please see the trilogy of books written by an attorney who was also a close friend of Dr. King. The first was book was recommended by Dexter, Dr. King's youngest son. It is titled 'Orders to Kill.' Thr author's name is William Pepper. The scholarly research culminated after more than 20 years resulted in two more books. They are "An Act of State", and "The Plot to Kill King."😭❤🙏🙏

  • @christophermontilla4748
    @christophermontilla4748 Před 4 lety +25

    You can never put a good man down. It rings. And still rings... We need more Martin Luther Kings more today.

  • @cathyt144
    @cathyt144 Před 6 lety +53

    I had my car radio on 101.1 last night and this speech was on. I had never heard this story and im 57 yrs old. I grew up during the Civil Rights Movement and i dont remember any news stations discussing the movement. I wasnt taught by my parents to be racist.I bet this great man would be pleased that hes being honored,not just the 50th yr anniv. ,but on a daily basis with most folks. The flip side is that he would be very disappointed with the gun violence and unnecessary killings that have happened in recent years. I hope that im blessed to be able to meet this awesome man in Heaven. 🙏😇

    • @whysoserious6685
      @whysoserious6685 Před 5 lety +3

      @Eliza Grogan lol nope that's white bigots revisions of mlk. You generalize "blacks" for what some do. That is racism no matter how much you scream it's not, it still is. I will never let a bigot keep me from being happy or doing what I want but I will call them out always.

    • @hebrewwarrior3113
      @hebrewwarrior3113 Před 5 lety +7

      America was built off slavery and this is not white peoples land remember it was stolen from the indians

    • @dukeroe
      @dukeroe Před 5 lety +2

      Eliza Grogan Our Situation Is Much Different Because Long After Slavery Into This Day There Are Forces Working Strategically To Push The Black Community In To Bondage This Is America There Has To Be Crime And There Has To Be A Common Enemy In Order To Bring The Other Side Together With Out The Blacks In America This Country Would Fall Apart And Some Times I Dont Think It’s Strictly A Race Thing it’s More Of A Way To Maintain Structure This County Doesn’t Know How To Sustain With Out Blacks It Has Never Been A Time In It’s History That We Where Not Presents As Either The Enemy Of The States Or The Victim Of The States Either Way A Common Hate Makes You Love The Guy That Hayes What You Hate If There Where No Blacks In America Who Would Then Be Enemy Number One Who Would Populate The Prison System That Generates So Much Income Who’s Community Would They Have Destroyed In The illegal Funding Of The Nicaragua War When The CIA Introduced Crack Cocaine In To The Black Community And The Difference With Other County’s Are That It’s There Country We The Black Ppl Dont Make Up A Significant Population In This Country We Still Dont Hold High Positions In Society And It’s Not Because We Dont Work For Them It’s Not Because Were Not Smart Enough It’s Not Because We Are Lazy It’s Because We Where Never Meant To Be Functional Members Of The American Society The Laws Were Not Made For Us The Constitution Was Not Made For Us There Was Not Intent On Us Ever Being Real Members Of Society We Were Set Free Under Th Where 13th Amendment To Work The Job’s That They Didn’t Want To Do For A Low Wage And In That Same Amendment It States That We Infact Are Still Subject To Slavery If We Are Incarcerated And With Laws That Can Be Proven To Be Structured For Blacks To Break We Can Uplift Our Ppl We Had A Puppet For President To Satisfy Our Eyes And Make The World Think We Are A Fair Nation If This Country Doesn’t Change It’s Going To Get Really Ugly For The Citizens Of It We Need New Amendments And Laws Because The Old Way Ain’t Working It Was Written By Evil Slave Owners Who Are Revered By This Country As Hero’s And Ppl To Look Up To When A Country Is Built In This Way You Have To Trow The Whole System Away It’s Never Going To Get Better We We Are Still Under The Laws And Legislation Of Slave Owners

    • @saidtoney5527
      @saidtoney5527 Před 5 lety

      @Eliza Grogan
      ....really, it's one thing that that kind of stuff is bouncing around in your head, but you actually wrote that in a place where your comments don't go away.
      I'm not going to judge anyone here, but I would exhort us all to: 1. Question what we all (including me) think and 2. Take a breath and think about what we put out into the world in writing.
      I'll just assume that this was something that was written after a really bad day and after years of miseducation.
      3rd thing, let's all read up on the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
      Some inspiration never hurt anyone. If everyone were to apply just one principal that he taught, the world would be a better place. ....One more thing let's all read up on some US history so that we are able put the events of the past and present into context, while shaping a more healthy future.
      ...just a few things to think on
      (Something to look up if you so choose:
      Philipians 4:8)
      -Assalamu'alaykum 👍

    • @themagicdragon2011
      @themagicdragon2011 Před 2 lety

      @@dukeroe So you think that all white people were slave owners? You actually believe that all white people are from "racist"/prejudice views? This widely indoctrinated perception only makes you ignorant, when you voice it and merely think it. You probably don't know the fact that before 1865, only 15 of the 34 states were slave states, all of them together in the south. Nineteen states voted against slavery and won, 19 states. White people, voting FOR Black people! White people, standing up AGAINST slavery. THEY WERE NOT NOT SLAVE OWNERS NOR WERE THEY RACIST/PREJUDICE! THEY ARE THE FOREFATHERS OF MANY PEOPLE HERE TODAY! So a Black person saying any random white persons Forefathers were slave owners , racist or involved in any malicious actions towards Black folks is actually ludicrous and plainly displays ignorance. Respectfully, see if that alone sinks in and the ramifications that follow any future actions! o.0
      Yes there are many racist/prejudice whites still on this planet, created by that ignorant southern perception and ideals. They will be dealt with by GOD, as will you and yours YET there are not any "Forces Working Strategically To Push The Black Community Into Bondage" This is your brainwashing and truthfully under GOD a deflection from the True Agenda In Play Right Now! Most important is that you seem to be Hypo-cognitive to the realities of other cultures/peoples COMPLETE and SEPARATE histories on this planet!

  • @user-fh8uc1hl4v
    @user-fh8uc1hl4v Před 5 lety +66

    Just because you found Kepler's similar letter and you have not found the 9th grader's letter, does not mean the 9th grader's letter did not exist. Cam McWhirter try asking females who were 9th graders at White Plains High School from 1958 to 1968.

    • @amijamcangirl8818
      @amijamcangirl8818 Před 5 lety +6

      Devil busy

    • @aliwalk5179
      @aliwalk5179 Před 5 lety +3

      Well Praise God, the white ladies letter was found, was the 9th grader a lil blk girl? Praise God for the speech ☝ Thank U Jesus for the speaker👋😇

    • @tbwms3243
      @tbwms3243 Před 5 lety +2

      That letter may have meant so much to him that he kept it separate and eventually lost it. I doubt very seriously if they have every piece of material he received. Things can always get misplaced and lost.
      Just another thought..
      Ministers often create a story in a sermon to make a point. This could have occurred as well.

    • @indigenouskings
      @indigenouskings Před 4 lety +2

      Thats the same thing i was thinking. There was probably many people that was saying "Im glad you didnt sneeze" But King quoted the one with 9th grade white girl.

    • @hankwatson8947
      @hankwatson8947 Před 4 lety +2

      By talking about the thought that letter didnt come from a 9th grade white girl is people still trying to take away from his historical sermon this was a great man he also was a preacher an they have been known to move things around to make the point in the sermon people don't be shallow about the greatness of this man also the bravery it took to go out in public knowing people wanted to kill him see how long any of the people making sad comments would stand on public knowing this no they would be to busy hiding not that it matters im a 47 year old white man
      RIP

  • @Poetry41
    @Poetry41 Před 6 lety +60

    Thank you Dr Martin Luther King

  • @3alarm247
    @3alarm247 Před 5 lety +13

    We need more people to stop being silent and get into activism. God created this world for all people.

  • @willwright2099
    @willwright2099 Před 5 lety +24

    Boy am I so glad he hadn't sneezed!

  • @josephmass3052
    @josephmass3052 Před 5 lety +88

    "He quotes a letter that doesn't exist"
    Says who? Just because you didn't find the letter from the teenage girl doesn't mean it didn't exist. The internet has proven that people come up with similar phases often hence the reason for registering domain names. Just because you found a letter containing the phrase " I'm glad you didn't sneeze" does not conclusively prove that there wasn't another one. And if, by chance, Dr. King did misquote one of the many letters that he undoubtedly received and that he took the time to read while hard at work changing the free world, SO WHAT!
    Dr. King did more in one month of his life for the cause of humanity than the producers of this video will achieve if they all live to be 200 years old. In my view, when the individuals in this video and those that produced it demonstrate a willingness to sacrifice their very lives for the good of mankind, as Dr. King did, then and only then will they qualify to critique any aspect of Dr. King's life in any credible way. And if this video is their best contribution to humanity thus far, then they clearly have a long long way to go. smh
    p.s.
    Some people have way too much free time on their hands.

    • @mskreme76
      @mskreme76 Před 5 lety +5

      True. Dr. King could've kept the letter himself.

    • @illstateofmind6316
      @illstateofmind6316 Před 5 lety +3

      Facts

    • @neitajames6029
      @neitajames6029 Před 5 lety +3

      The letter was found she. Was.nota child but was a adult. Woman.

    • @dennissalamone5794
      @dennissalamone5794 Před 5 lety

      right that is what I said also.why would someone of dr kings stature make up something like that.

    • @almalutchman4552
      @almalutchman4552 Před 5 lety +2

      Well, it was not in the documents searched
      It may one day be discovered!
      But might have had existed and gotten trashed.
      King did not say he valued the evidence,
      But he apparently embraced the message....end.

  • @kennymcburns7843
    @kennymcburns7843 Před 5 lety +149

    I dont get it! Who care if this Letter was real or not... WHAT would be the difference?
    Thanx for all Dr. King!

    • @saidtoney5527
      @saidtoney5527 Před 5 lety +6

      Exactly, if he did make up the letter I'm glad he did. He was making a point.

    • @annairvin6089
      @annairvin6089 Před 4 lety +3

      Yes I don't understand either, this man went through all this for what? But it let's you know how far some people will go when they have nothing else to do, mean did he get tons of money for this.🤷

    • @atishastephensonpike6540
      @atishastephensonpike6540 Před 4 lety +3

      He integrated you into a burning system. Have you become Firemen?

    • @muhammadihsanharahap674
      @muhammadihsanharahap674 Před 4 lety +2

      It is simply to know the truth. No more than that.

    • @lewalcindor9356
      @lewalcindor9356 Před 4 lety +1

      @@atishastephensonpike6540 says the person freely using an integrated social media platform.

  • @xeduxion4698
    @xeduxion4698 Před 5 lety +22

    Thanx MLK for your short but extraordinarily accomplished life!
    Your 'are' a blessing to humanity!

  • @mylifetotaly
    @mylifetotaly Před 5 lety +10

    He should have mentioned the interview on MNBC May 1967, which Black Americans need to hear.

  • @sandybeaches3950
    @sandybeaches3950 Před 5 lety +6

    Dr King probably kept that letter. The young lady that wrote it probably did not want to be "exposed." She probably would have contacted Dr.Kings family by now. That letter could be in the King's family private stash.

    • @a.deewai3181
      @a.deewai3181 Před 5 lety +1

      Could very well be! Shows the procaution of Dr. Martin Luther King jr.💐☑️
      Sincere regards in Christ Jesus,
      A. DEE WAI.

  • @gregsoberal7473
    @gregsoberal7473 Před 5 lety +102

    Wait a minute what they still trying to steal some of the man's Glory

    • @redog364
      @redog364 Před 4 lety +4

      I don't think man is supposed 2 get any glory! We and he gotta give it 2 God

    • @dreams2filmproduction342
      @dreams2filmproduction342 Před 4 lety +3

      They doing they best smh

    • @Chaiboogie
      @Chaiboogie Před 4 lety

      Exactly

    • @andyoli75
      @andyoli75 Před 3 lety

      Nah. They are scholars researching a reference in one of his speeches. Probably his last public speech. They find it remarkable this reference to a previous attempts on his life and the outpouring of support. To them, the source material is important and they want to read that too, but no one has found this one letter in all his documents. Without the letter, historians chalk up the story of a letter to a orator's flourish. He wouldn't be the first person to use one, based on similar real experience, to make a point or establish a mood. But, the letter was found and the family share their stories as well.

      tl;dr Historian finds letter that was important in MLK's life and contact the letter writer's family. Lovely story and interesting piece of detective work.

    • @gregsoberal7473
      @gregsoberal7473 Před 3 lety

      @@andyoli75 you got all that out it wow 👏 you got a wild imagination 😳

  • @kapatip9936
    @kapatip9936 Před 5 lety +23

    Wow indeed Martin Luther King was indeed a man of the Almighty God. God bless his heart❤

  • @OsirisIxchel
    @OsirisIxchel Před 5 lety +37

    Thank God you didn't sneeze....i was 20 yrs. old when this happened. It feels like it was yesterday much like JFK's death to me.

    • @electric6877
      @electric6877 Před 5 lety +4

      Iris Friesen here's a reality check though. They killed JFK and MLK because they were perceived as a danger to the establishment aka the people in power and the biggest threat, the people who profit off of death and destruction. MLK advocated for social policy and economic equality and that's when they killed him. JFK I heard he wanted to take us out of several for profit wars and that's why they killed him. It's sad what happened to them, and it's all because of people who want lots of money, only to keep in their pocket for no reason besides either greed or because they like to see people suffer.

    • @OsirisIxchel
      @OsirisIxchel Před 5 lety +2

      @@electric6877 Darling I'm 75 years old. I don't need a "reality" check... I was there...literally.

    • @electric6877
      @electric6877 Před 5 lety +3

      Iris Friesen sorry about that I didn't mean it that way. I was only saying it like that because many people are being brainwashed by the media and I just want to make sure people know what really happened in history rather than just thinking someone killed them because they just "fought for civil rights" or "against the establishment".

    • @OsirisIxchel
      @OsirisIxchel Před 5 lety +1

      @@electric6877 Thank you for the clarification and your efforts to educate others. I love your manners... mama taught you right! xxooxx

    • @WarpPal
      @WarpPal Před 4 lety

      Fun fact a Council back in the late 60s early 70s ruled Dr. King and JFKs death a conspiracy.

  • @9419bubbles
    @9419bubbles Před 2 lety +2

    Your videos are AMAZING . Eye 👁 openers for sure!!Thank you!!!

  • @The_Dosage
    @The_Dosage Před 4 lety +4

    "And tell her she's a part of history that she never knew about. . ."
    Let's take this same energy and start telling modern whites which of their ancestors abused blacks slaves and how their behavior benefited their future generations, for history.

  • @shanti3152
    @shanti3152 Před 4 lety +8

    How on Earth do you know another young girl didn’t also write a letter that you just never found ??? This is more likely, than “the letter didn’t exist ...”

  • @nahheyheyhoorayjames7290
    @nahheyheyhoorayjames7290 Před 6 lety +21

    The legend, SIR MARTIN Luther king..wisdoms he SPREAD around, and voices.😔

  • @will19741970
    @will19741970 Před 5 lety +8

    Just because you couldn't find the letter doesn't mean it doesn't exist or was never wrote.

    • @marvwashington3707
      @marvwashington3707 Před 5 lety +1

      I've learned that the media version of anything put out by them is a lie

    • @ilae.williams7675
      @ilae.williams7675 Před 4 lety

      "or was never WRITTEN". Please, people: when u have written a comment, you should RE-READ what you have written to make sure there are no errors...

  • @user-ec4wh2hr7i
    @user-ec4wh2hr7i Před 5 lety +10

    We just love him.

    • @chehampton484
      @chehampton484 Před rokem +1

      Yes we do love him so much a true man a a king to humanity rest in power martin we miss you 😭😭😭😭😭🥺🥺🥺

  • @Justaguywithtruth
    @Justaguywithtruth Před 4 lety +11

    He did great in hiding the woman's identity through a child..👍

  • @ameenyinusa3167
    @ameenyinusa3167 Před 6 lety +11

    Most
    Loved
    Kind
    Jr

  • @myrajackson9245
    @myrajackson9245 Před 4 lety +11

    I love Martin Luther King Jr's speeches

  • @oldsoul2882
    @oldsoul2882 Před 2 lety +1

    Amazing just Amazing God bless you sister rest in power brother martin you are missed 😥 😔 😟 😥 😔 😭😭😭😭

  • @jmikeyt4975
    @jmikeyt4975 Před 5 lety +4

    Luther King was a good person😢

  • @nekelmagicfox3654
    @nekelmagicfox3654 Před 6 lety +54

    MLK WAS A GREAT MAN

    • @sherrelshepard4590
      @sherrelshepard4590 Před 5 lety +5

      Wow, I see why he was choosen to do this, hatred is poison. It doesn't matter who hates you for doing what's needed. Only one matters is the one who knows truth. Period. God bless his family, heaven is his home now, nobody can touch him. But evil people will land in he'll for there evil ways if they don't stop and turn away from that hatred before they die. You can take that to the bank

    • @hakeemsd70m
      @hakeemsd70m Před 5 lety +7

      @Ray Sagastiano Dr. King. was a monster to racist white people who feared him, and STILL fear him to this day. And your racists worship George Wahington and Thomas Jefferson, the demonic rapists? You are sick!

    • @carriefisher3294
      @carriefisher3294 Před 5 lety +3

      Ray Sagastiano @RaySagastiano you cannot justify your idiotic statement calling Dr. King a monster. You're just another racist monster. Dr. King was a kindhearted Saint who coud have pursued a career with financial gain because of his education & intellect. But instead he devoted his short lived life to helping Black ppl get their denied GOD given rights; he tried to humanize the evil hypocrisy of AmeriKKKa. Out of the 1000s of archieved papers this guy found, why did he ONLY focus on the white girl's letter?

    • @michaelscurlock5371
      @michaelscurlock5371 Před 5 lety +1

      @@hakeemsd70m preach!!

    • @michaelscurlock5371
      @michaelscurlock5371 Před 5 lety +2

      @Ray Sagastiano yeah...a monster to racism!

  • @charlesbanks1019
    @charlesbanks1019 Před 5 lety +6

    One day this NATION WILL KNOW HOW GOD SENT THIS DRUM MAJOR FOR PEACE AND GOOD WILL TO ALL MEN ,HE WAS!!!!

  • @jameslungz5144
    @jameslungz5144 Před 5 lety +15

    The message is to March for an end to inequality so let's do that!

  • @abuhassan9321
    @abuhassan9321 Před 5 lety +15

    This was a non story

  • @lightningprogamer9753
    @lightningprogamer9753 Před 6 lety +23

    Legend

  • @ronaldwatson1951
    @ronaldwatson1951 Před 4 lety +2

    Very interesting and informative story that the mystery was solved. Great video

  • @ronblack2700
    @ronblack2700 Před 5 lety +4

    We need a Martin Luther King in 2019.

  • @brookfield_tils
    @brookfield_tils Před 3 lety +1

    It shows that people try to quiet people like MLK and Malala but sometimes they fail

  • @logicreasoning9972
    @logicreasoning9972 Před 5 lety +51

    THIS WASN'T MLK JR's FINAL SPEECH

    • @noexcusestv2027
      @noexcusestv2027 Před 4 lety +19

      😂😂😂😂😂there they go making thier own history again

    • @kermitwilliams3970
      @kermitwilliams3970 Před 4 lety +7

      Yes it was... He was killed the next day. "Mountaintop" speech 4/3/68. MLK, Jr. 1929-68

    • @MD-DLive
      @MD-DLive Před 4 lety

      @MadMaxx yes!!!!

  • @lonniesimpson637
    @lonniesimpson637 Před 4 lety +6

    I remember the day of his assassination as if it happened ten minutes ago. I lived in Atlanta at that time. It amazing that, some Europeans, for centuries, have strived to not only deprive us of our history and heritage, but have "successfully rewrote it and taught it." ; And not only have we believed it but have accepted it. The story is told about King sitting over Harry Belefonta's house and was looking down in a state of gloominess. Harry asked him three times, "Martin are you okay." He didn't respond on the first two, but on the third one he looked up and replied,"Harry, I think we are, [marching, running] into a burning [building, house] and we are going to have to [save, rescue] ourselves out of it." The civil rights movement was not so much about integration, but about civil rights and liberties guaranteed under the Constitution. It was about ... All men are created equally, and have certain inalienable rights that should not be infringed upon nor deprived of; they [were] endowed by their CREATOR. The Bill of Rights, the 9th, 14th, and the 15th Amendments. He spoke that to him a year before his assassination. Martin wondered that after all the protesting, sit-ins. demonstration, and marching, that a greater evil was hanging in the balance. That their would be those in power, when integration would become part of the norm, to a degree, that those who still opposed us will make it more destructive for us; that since they could not destroy us "from without, they would destroy us from within." And though some of us,as he said, 'have floated out of the muddy Waters of the back stream into the fresh flowing Waters of the mainstream, and have forgotten the stench of the back Waters." How so true. Look how we have turned out adversities against each other; the guns, the violence, the hatred, madness towards each other. Today, I can't even talk to or reason with my brother without the risk of being physically threatened, harmed, injured; not to mention being shot, stabbed and/ or killed.

    • @cemanahuacwestamexem126
      @cemanahuacwestamexem126 Před 4 lety +3

      You are REFUGEES in your OWN Land. But you'all insist in call yourselves BLACKS and bear Europeans Names!

    • @cemanahuacwestamexem126
      @cemanahuacwestamexem126 Před 4 lety

      czcams.com/video/7N330vc6A3U/video.html

    • @cemanahuacwestamexem126
      @cemanahuacwestamexem126 Před 4 lety

      MLK knew about the Truth from the beginning. after all, He went to /Mountain Top\ Mohammad Mountain!czcams.com/video/3a9xJ9pJn3w/video.html

    • @catsdogsbaby8318
      @catsdogsbaby8318 Před 2 lety +3

      The government has agreed to house and educate the European peasants
      But refused to pay us and our forefathers that being the black sharecroppers
      "We're going to March to the White House and ask the president to get our check"
      Right after that he was assassinated

    • @lonniesimpson637
      @lonniesimpson637 Před 2 lety

      @@catsdogsbaby8318 With the exception of John Lewis, and a couple of others, the best ones who speak the truth and that seek to show the way, lives are curtailed by those who are in power and position to silence their adversaries and then put a blanket over it, if you know what I am saying. They may get away with it with man, but, not with the ALMIGHTY. HE sees, knows, and aware of it, even before they done it.

  • @DianaKazimiera-
    @DianaKazimiera- Před 4 lety +1

    God bless #Hero Dr.Martin Luther King 🙏🙏

  • @ishiahyman8167
    @ishiahyman8167 Před 5 lety +8

    Martin Luther king jr. You are my hero

  • @GailBecker-MSED-CM-Author

    The letter does exist because I saw it many years ago, but I don't think she was in high school. I think I remember that she was in elementary school. Even though guards confirmed that the letter existed back then.

    • @margiecampbell714
      @margiecampbell714 Před 6 měsíci

      Where and how did you come across the letter? How do you know what grade she was in?

    • @GailBecker-MSED-CM-Author
      @GailBecker-MSED-CM-Author Před 6 měsíci

      @@margiecampbell714 I am a reader of everything I get my hands on, especially when it is about History! Moreover, I come from a family of Civil Rights activists who taught us about African and Black History in addition to attending African and Black History classes at our church since I was a kid. I have an excellent memory as well as a photographic memory.

  • @montrelhicks7344
    @montrelhicks7344 Před 5 lety +4

    They Should’ve charged him a Billion dollars to see the paper

  • @GK-we6gi
    @GK-we6gi Před 4 lety +1

    No one talking about how tragic his speech was in the context of what happened next?

  • @nathanngumi8467
    @nathanngumi8467 Před 4 lety +1

    Wow, I am grateful to God he did not sneeze in 1958.

  • @daviemokhola7763
    @daviemokhola7763 Před 4 lety +3

    You left a powerful legacy Dr King

  • @qrapye
    @qrapye Před 4 lety +3

    It's amazing how many white folks felt so passionately about civil rights even a little girl 💝

  • @cristinamarie1990
    @cristinamarie1990 Před 3 lety

    Just because the private letter was not submitted to the public to be on display does not mean it does not exist.

  • @jayviencortez
    @jayviencortez Před 5 lety +8

    Use THAT SAME ENERGY & impeach TRUMP

  • @hbdministries
    @hbdministries Před 5 lety +1

    They always think the worst. Why not assume that letter was lost. Much as people replace relocate and misplaced one item or two. Just stop it

  • @shawnwilliams8259
    @shawnwilliams8259 Před 6 lety +1

    It’s only noted after the credits that it was the Atlanta University Center library where he finds the letter. Morehouse owns the collection but AUC manages it.

  • @N.a.j.i.
    @N.a.j.i. Před 5 lety +1

    I went to a black private hi school n the 90s and we went around the country performing/reciting ALL these speeches individually(& singing gospel songs in betwn). I PROMISE U, it did somethin for our young souls to theatrically live his speeches. It was a packed audience every state. WE WERE CALLED 'THEE MARTIN LUTHER KING PLAYERS'...& it was an honor.

  • @jmhsound
    @jmhsound Před 3 lety +1

    Fascinating ! Thank you so much for your research

  • @martymcfly5423
    @martymcfly5423 Před 4 lety +6

    Then obviously there was a second letter in which a small girl also wrote "im so happy that you didnt sneeze" 👍

  • @abakadaega2
    @abakadaega2 Před 6 lety

    Thank you, Mr. Cameron McWihirter, for your noble mission to find the nine year old writer of the letter to MLK .

    • @beverlyann111
      @beverlyann111 Před 4 lety +1

      Noble mission ?! Lol, these are the same group that murdered him

  • @user-gc9vv7fo7l
    @user-gc9vv7fo7l Před 5 lety +4

    Big love and memory to Dr Martin Luther King

  • @ezekiel-pj6st
    @ezekiel-pj6st Před 4 lety

    It is important that we judge people only by their character and SIT DOWN be humble

  • @kumbukanismith1461
    @kumbukanismith1461 Před 3 lety

    The fact that you didn't find the letter doesn't mean it didn't exist. King wouldn't lie.

  • @jamesstokes867
    @jamesstokes867 Před 3 lety

    Good job of finding the letter!

  • @s3nsec0rruptr80
    @s3nsec0rruptr80 Před 4 lety +1

    Wow, definitely the most important thing to focus on in relation to Dr King...

  • @freddyfrug3940
    @freddyfrug3940 Před 4 lety +2

    Even though the 2nd Klan movement, (1915-1944) and the 3rd Klan movement, (1946-present) both started off in Atlanta before they landed on other locales, area's and regions, there's absolutely nothing in MLK's writings and quotes in regards to his hometown of Atlanta being the foremost "Klan Cesspool" of 20th century America.You had " Sundown Towns" but if what the adjacent counties north of Atlanta, (Cherokee,Dawson,Forsyth,Pickens) had together was a white population of 154,000 and a black population of only 1,900 in 1990, you had the only "Sundown Region" within the South at the time.

  • @estlhm805
    @estlhm805 Před 4 lety +1

    The struggles of yesterday are still the struggle of today! Those voices were relevant then and still are now. As the saying goes... For those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it!

  • @annaleeseboyd83
    @annaleeseboyd83 Před 4 lety +2

    I'm assuming that he didn't want to tell people who she was for safety reasons.

  • @joshua_sykes
    @joshua_sykes Před 5 lety +1

    Wowee; I want to write more letters now

  • @alphonso6083
    @alphonso6083 Před 5 lety +11

    Never love your enemy

    • @jaydilleh5453
      @jaydilleh5453 Před 5 lety +1

      Love your enemies for it's Gods fight

    • @howardmarks7013
      @howardmarks7013 Před 5 lety

      What if God's your enemy?

    • @garyrich2053
      @garyrich2053 Před 4 lety

      And if the Old Testament is the true word of OUR History, it says , Esau whom I hated.
      It says to hate your enemy, unlike the Kjv. Which is the perversion of the history so tht you will love those tht mean you no good in their deeds, though their tongue is as silk, to your ears.
      The Old Testament is so hard to live by, it is not a bible, it is the way we had lived in the “WORD”!

    • @howardmarks7013
      @howardmarks7013 Před 4 lety

      @@garyrich2053 the Bible is just a book that is full of made up stories. It's not to be taken literally.

    • @garyrich2053
      @garyrich2053 Před 4 lety

      Howard Marks ,
      So why do you take what I say so literally, when all of history thts has been misdirected, mistranslated , misappropriated, misused, abused by uninforming, and miseducating the masses. All to serve an agenda of a few, while mentally enslaving the minds of the majority. Now tht that’s off my chest... what put you in the mind set tht you would assume to have overreaching authority that you would cross lands, seas, highway & byways, via technology to dictate to me, my perception of what my truth should be.
      “ who youuuu?”

  • @williamclydeyon8275
    @williamclydeyon8275 Před 4 lety +1

    So what if the letter wasn't found, the love was

  • @peterrock1097
    @peterrock1097 Před 5 lety +1

    They can't tear down Dr. King's message, no matter how hard they tear down the man.

    • @a.deewai3181
      @a.deewai3181 Před 5 lety

      I agree totally! Why not look all the way up within the responses and see‼️😊 Have a Nice Day🌄 and God bless!🕊️

  • @shreenivasjewargikar9966
    @shreenivasjewargikar9966 Před 3 lety +1

    My hero

  • @KingAkaeBeka
    @KingAkaeBeka Před 2 lety

    No1 is my hero except the one who create creation. Look how your inner body function...that is the best mechanic

  • @dallasboringnews7157
    @dallasboringnews7157 Před 5 lety +4

    I wouldnt want to be trying to get into heaven and have st. Peter address, "oh by the way you stabbed mlk in the chest"

  • @marvinwhitney4286
    @marvinwhitney4286 Před 5 lety +1

    Maybe she wrote and articulated for her child what the child wasnt able to put so plainly

  • @sexyscorpio8087
    @sexyscorpio8087 Před 5 lety +9

    EVERYDAY Seems Like NOTHING Really Happened Too CHANGE The PAST!!!! IT'S NO BETTER NOW.

  • @reneegede5384
    @reneegede5384 Před 2 lety +1

    Some folks are so uneducated that they don't know themes build on top of other themes. There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING NEW under the sun. All that is built has a foundation. Michael Jackson didn't even originate the Moonwalk, he just perfected it and made his version his own. But it wasn't new or uncopied. EVERYONE does that. Music is even copied from other music, people just put a new spin on it that makes it their own - there's only 25,000 ways to do the "12-Bar Blues", but the people who do it don't own it, they just recrafted and perfected it.
    They are so busy trying to rake Dr. King across the coals 60 years post-mortem and attach all Black people to Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson that they don't even know Al and Jesse are shills for white America, not advocates for the Black community. That dire need to destroy King's legacy is telling all by itself. NOBODY did anything all that original. It was just the way they remolded it and brought it to life by craft and rhetorical nuance that made the difference. I can't even tell my own life story as well as someone else could, truth told.
    I can't wait for the sequel "All of Trump's plagiarized speeches and lies," just to see how sincere they are about exposing TRUTH; and furthermore, the truth about all the BS Joel Osteen keeps repeating that is not even his own thought processes, let alone his own work. Are you after THE actual truth or just Dr. King's skin color over his moral character?
    I don't care what I read or what movie I see, I go in knowing it's a different take on something that has, more than likely, already been done before. TITANIC was a 150-times told tale, but NOBODY topped the one with Leo & Kate in it. NOBODY. They don't even need to tell that story again, that was the one that was the Magna Carta of ALL Titanic stories - nothing left to say about it. Period.
    The US Constitution isn't even original and neither are this nation's laws. They were taken from other codified sources out of the East and Far East and modified in Rome over time.

  • @AljoniMusiCo
    @AljoniMusiCo Před 5 lety +3

    The MAN always made it plain!

    • @guybaldwin1314
      @guybaldwin1314 Před 5 lety

      All you people do is hate on black people in general hateful !

  • @a.deewai3181
    @a.deewai3181 Před 5 lety +3

    Ok. Here we go! HOW FUTILE! "EXCUSE ME"! (And that's not ment as a question to "please excuse me"!) These kind of things can make me quite edgy.
    This great man and christian recieved SO many letters probably... Who knows if a girl wrote about the same thing as the older lady, both with the best intent! And then, so many years later (maybe the subject came up, and memory of a letter from a girl and the phrase;" if I would have sneezed")... and took presidence for no other reason then to serve and encourage those through a significant speach of excellence! He took a stand for rightiousness and in the way of a true follower of CHRIST! He was "the front man". He had to stay strong for others and keeping on encouraging to protest the right way, the christian way, no violence!
    Walking up front, knowing he was a target all the time! Luckely he KNEW that in Christ, death could not hold him and he would see Jesus the Christ of Nazareth - Son of the living God of Israël!
    (And with this I do not forget others for rightiousness sake, well-known or not. As heroes I think of them!)☑️💖‼️
    And to then "find importance" in finding this letter...Who knows, maybe there was a letter of a girl from a certain background?... That that in itself could (in those days) have endangered her...?! And maybe that might even have played a part in not using it as part of an encouraging speach only years later...?
    No! This to me seems nothing other then splitting hairs! Trying to diminish the outstanding role in history Dr. Martin Luther King jr. has played. That he wasn't one to revel away in aspects of issues hardly worth mentioning, let alone "stating it as a truth"...
    Dr. Martin Luther King jr. was one to take part in THE MAKING OF HISTORY!! And now here's "belittling you"... Building your name in time, are you??... Through an article like this...
    NO! What Dr. Martin Luther King jr. (and others)did, as a whole ( to this day even to be considered as topical) is what matters! Unbelievable and unbecoming a true citizen is what you here-in presenting yourself to be! SHAME ON YOU ! (and with that I mean nothing bad towards the lady who wrote (if she did and not a girl) or her descendants!)
    Sincerly in Christ Jesus Our Lord ✝️🌹,
    A. DEE WAI.

  • @HerbWalker
    @HerbWalker Před 4 lety

    Lets look at the FACTS:
    * The Fire Station across from the Loraine Motel is where the (2) Man shooter team were located.
    * The shot that hit Dr King was fired from a slightly opened window, in the Fire Station dormitory.
    *The shooter team were backed into the shadows of the room , yet still had a clear view of the balcony where Dr King was shot.
    * The Shot hit Dr King as he was about to go to supper and he was leaning over the balcony railing , speaking to people on the ground level..and leaning forward. The shot was intended to strike DR King in the head, but the hyper velocity ammunition did not hit the intended target, but was left of center. Dr King was struck in his right jaw line instead of the center of his head. The bullet cut his carotid artery and deflected down to his collar bone and stopped in his back.
    * A huge tree limb completely blocked the view of the Loraine Motel balcony from the supposed shooters location in the bath room window.
    *The very next day , someone CUT that tree down, making it appear as that was where the shot CAME from.
    * The only BLACK Fire fighters in that Fire house were mysteriously RE assigned to another Fire station across town in Memphis. (Why , so they would be out of the way for the shooter team to set up)
    I lived in Memphis and I was there the night Dr King was murdered. It was horrible then, MUCH worse than what we see today. I have investigated this case for 50 years and I agree with the King family, James Earl Ray was a "patsy' and did NOT shoot Dr King. The same people killed a Sitting National President on LIVE TV in Dallas Tx, so what chance did a Civil Rights worker in Memphis have? RIP Dr King :(

  • @ghostwriter7773
    @ghostwriter7773 Před 5 lety +5

    Some people don't believe anything until they see it! So when the King of Kings returns descending on a cloud then I guess they will believe God is because then they will see him! But by then it will be too late! So sad blessed is he that believe without seeing.

  • @seanpinching436
    @seanpinching436 Před 5 lety +2

    Martin Luther king jr sound like my priest from my church

  • @humbertocellig
    @humbertocellig Před 4 lety +3

    GOD BLESS DR KING. GONE TOO SOON INDEED.

  • @karmaclay4004
    @karmaclay4004 Před 4 lety +1

    Just because he didn't find it, doesn't mean it didn't exist. That's a very presumptuous statement. Every single piece of history hasn't been found, archaeologist are still finding artifacts from hundreds of years ago. The news reporter stated in the report that if he had of sneezed he would've died. I'm pretty sure he got a lot of letters that said, "good thing you didn't sneeze. Very presumptuous. smh

  • @freddyfrug3940
    @freddyfrug3940 Před 4 lety +1

    MLK was more accommodating of bigotry than fighting against bigotry as he hardly ever mentioned the Klan despite that the role that they've played in American bigotry. Then you have something odd, in that everybody is aware that the birthplace of MLK is Atlanta, while hardly anybody is aware that the birthplace of both the 2nd KKK movement (1915-1944) and the 3rd KKK movement (1946-present) was Atlanta.

  • @WilliamBrown-vl2hl
    @WilliamBrown-vl2hl Před 5 lety +1

    Dr.King's inner circle was in on the hit on Dr.King,back in 1968.

    • @GabrielKerr
      @GabrielKerr Před 5 lety

      lol get the heck outta here with that.

    • @WilliamBrown-vl2hl
      @WilliamBrown-vl2hl Před 5 lety +1

      People didn't die for me for the right to vote,people were murdered for me for the right to vote.

    • @beverlyann111
      @beverlyann111 Před 4 lety

      @Kamar G No, it was the new fella, McClure or something

    • @beverlyann111
      @beverlyann111 Před 4 lety

      @Kamar G Nope, Jackson has done dishonorable things but it wasn't him.You do know that the King family sued the United States of America for murdering their father and Coretta's husband, and they WON ! The public has never been told about that, also King was murdered in the hospital. ......Reverend Jackson had nothing to do with the murder, the Kings knows who they weere.

    • @beverlyann111
      @beverlyann111 Před 4 lety

      @Kamar G Very good, I see people are awakening! And yes, there's ALWAYS a sellout, but, still we rise !

  • @lunaamore2713
    @lunaamore2713 Před 4 lety

    I'm sure they didn't expect anyone to come looking for them because they wrote a letter to Martin Luther King.

  • @johngalt3568
    @johngalt3568 Před 4 lety

    Where these words from Dr. King’s final speech In Memphis or from an earlier one? I just remember him speaking about reaching “the promised land”.

  • @MatrixMaster777
    @MatrixMaster777 Před 6 lety +3

    Thanks For Sharing^^

  • @nehemiahnaga3135
    @nehemiahnaga3135 Před 5 lety +3

    It's not appropriate to put one's own struggles in praises.Therefore, i know deep in my heart that it was wisdom of Dr. MLk that took over his speech.Equality in humanity above all else is what matters most n so is the lives of those who gave there everything to stand by it.

    • @ramadanshaibu7708
      @ramadanshaibu7708 Před 5 lety

      No matter what black people's are gifted wisdom knowledge n overstating than the white people's.
      They should continue hate n envy us God is in our side for more heroes are coming n one day we will rule the world

  • @MarkHardKnox
    @MarkHardKnox Před 5 lety +1

    I still wonder why not tell the truth about the origins of the letter. What else was at risk seeing that he still paid the ultimate price

  • @dreams2filmproduction342
    @dreams2filmproduction342 Před 4 lety +1

    My theory is king was protecting the identity of the author intentionally

  • @jaccuse3439
    @jaccuse3439 Před 5 lety +2

    please... after killing him they went to check for the letter? He wasn't dumb to let it around. And who are you guys anyway?

  • @thetruth8404
    @thetruth8404 Před 5 lety +1

    Sad how people believe their own lies and the stories they make up in their heads.

    • @likelyhim4488
      @likelyhim4488 Před 5 lety +4

      Yeah like white people believing that there wasn't any black people in the United States before they came, right?

  • @websonchilomo4865
    @websonchilomo4865 Před 5 lety +5

    You are just haters and jealous of Dr king' s work.

  • @thechrismcpheeshow8846

    Amen!

  • @melvino8926
    @melvino8926 Před 4 lety +3

    Why is this relevant these people evil to the core, now that we found the mystery of the letter let’s find out who really pulled the trigger..smh

    • @daughteroftmh1207
      @daughteroftmh1207 Před 4 lety

      PERIOD!
      WITH THAT SAME ENERGY! YOU HAD TRYING TO FIND THE LETTER , THE GIRL , THE DOG WHATEVER....

  • @jamesbrown2761
    @jamesbrown2761 Před 4 lety

    The miracle is, what stopped the knife milli-meters from his artery.

  • @nextstar55
    @nextstar55 Před 4 lety

    Why would they feel that the letter didn't exist? So they calling dr king a liar😡 these people are sick... Just because you didn't find the letter don't mean it don't exist

  • @williamsonoja6707
    @williamsonoja6707 Před 5 lety +1

    Are you guys trying to discredit Mlk?

  • @biggbirdopensesame6762
    @biggbirdopensesame6762 Před 5 lety +1

    My entire enimies suffer eternal punishment

  • @biggbirdopensesame6762
    @biggbirdopensesame6762 Před 5 lety +1

    Romantic cats used him just like Pharoah von

  • @kelvinJustice
    @kelvinJustice Před 4 lety

    Thank God he didn't sneeze...

  • @anakayyy
    @anakayyy Před rokem

    So he found the letter but didn’t post the actual whole letter

  • @luket8093
    @luket8093 Před 6 lety +7

    Interesting awesome