King Spoke to Our Better Angels (Local‪)‬

FOUR DAYS before his life was cut short by an assassin's bullet in 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered what would be his last Sunday sermon, at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. The subject was "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution." On that day, King recounted a conversation with a reporter who asked if he intended to drop his opposition to the Vietnam War because it appeared to be costing him the respect of some supporters and hurting donations to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.