Vision of what speech foretold
Katori Hall's 'Mountaintop' fills in the space between Martin Luther King Jr.'s last speech, death On April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Tenn. The speech, now known popularly as "I've Been to the Mountaintop," dealt specifically with a strike involving Memphis sanitation workers and, more broadly, discussed America's failure to live up its own ideals.  …