


He recorded the song “If I Can Dream” just two months after the murder, and the emotional intensity with which he delivers it still brings back the shock and grief that gripped America in the wake of King’s murder.

And in the aftermath of his assassination, millions of people paid tribute to his courage, his eloquence and his determination.Įlvis Presley was one of them. In the months that followed, younger and more militant members of the civil rights movement grew increasingly frustrated with King’s caution and his commitment to non-violent resistance, but King pushed on. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s ‘I have a dream’ speech.
