Speech

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Date: December 11, 1961

Source: King, Martin Luther, Jr. Speech Delivered at the Fourth Constitutional Convention o =the AFL-CIO held in Miami Beach, Florida, December 7–13, 1961. Published in Proceedings of the Fourth Constitutional Convention of the AFL-CIO, Vol. I: Daily Proceedings. Washington, D.C.: American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization, 1961, 283–288.

About the Author: The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968), scion of a prominent Atlanta, Georgia, African-American family, received his Ph.D. at Boston University. He then returned to his native South to serve as an ordained minister. As a pastor of a Birmingham, Alabama, church, he became active in the campaign for civil rights. From 1960 until his assassination in Memphis, Tennessee, King was widely regarded as the country's most...