Analysis Of I Ve Been To The Mountaintop Speech By Dr. Martin Luther King

Three score years and three ago, the civil rights movement began as African Americans started battling for equal rights and end to racial segregation in America. Many events, especially protests were core to this movement, especially in the southern states. After two garbage collectors in Memphis, Tennessee got crushed to death by a malfunctioning truck on February 1, 1968, 1300 black men from the Memphis Department of Public Works embarked on the Memphis Sanitation Strike between February 11, 1968, and April 16, 1968, to oppose the city’s long-term neglect, abuse of black workers and demand fair pay. In support, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave the “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech to the protestors on March 18, 1968 in which he highlights how they should approach their problem in order to win their battle. Due to the present condition of the United States, the way it appears to be moving and the outcome of the protest, King’s proposed strategies are effective and his vision possible.
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No task whatsoever can be done when the workers are fighting each other. Virtually every successful or almost successful. King advises, “… We’ve got to stay together and maintain unity. You know, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in Egypt, he kept the slaves fighting among themselves. But whenever the slaves get together…that’s the beginning of getting out of slavery.” (Jr., 1968) In order for the civil rights movement itself to succeed, both black and white liberal reformers formed groups like the NAACP. This group still exists because the members were not and are not always at each other’s necks and attained results. (T.Peterson)Even the civil rights movement had its setbacks like the fatal bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, but had this broken the members, America would not be as it is today (News, 2013). After advising these strategies, King made a solemn