"I've seen the Promised Land," Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said in a speech in Memphis on April 3, 1968. Tragically, he was assassinated the following day. #MLKDay 🎥MLK: The Assassination Tapes | Smithsonian Channel

Martin Luther King Jr.'s last speech was given in Memphis, Tennessee on April 3, 1968. He was there to support the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike. Here is a song we made from it a few years back - today we'll be thinking of what Dr. King said in this speech: "We as a people will get to the Promised Land." | The Gregory Brothers

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 – as an “undaunted champion of peace” – for his nonviolent struggle to end racial segregation, a recognition which he accepted on behalf of the American civil rights movement for social justice. King was 39 when he died, assassinated on 4 April 1968, during a trip to support striking sanitation workers in the city of Memphis, USA. Watch King’s acceptance speech: http://goo.gl/kYuVMx | Nobel Prize

TODAY IN HISTORY: 55 years ago, civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was named winner of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. Here he is accepting the award later that year: https://abcn.ws/2VK0PQa | ABC News