Analysis Of Martin Luther King's Speech At The Riverside Church

In April 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. stated his speech at the Riverside Church, describing that the effects of the war made the “poor, white, and negro bear the heaviest burdens at the front and at home”. What he meant to explain was the heavy toll of death placed on the soldiers in the frontlines and the lack of economic resources for the citizens in both regions, which created support from people like Robert Kennedy, Ralph, Abernathy, and Mariam Right, as well as the initiation of campaign creation like the Poor People’s Campaign.
Martin Luther King received many support from people like Robert Kennedy, Ralph Abernathy, and Mariam Wright in battling poverty. The contributing efforts in the creation of the Poor People’s Campaign by Marian Wright in 1967, the address of economic and racial injustice in the South by Robert Kennedy in his presidential campaign in 1968, and the partaking of the reigns of assassinated Luther King Jr.’s campaign by Ralph Abernathy in the same year, the campaign was able to eventually bring their cause to Washington DC, leading to the creation of small urban area for such people called Resurrection City. Resurrection City initially fared well as

Just like Martin Luther King Jr. stated the inevitably of “difficult days ahead” in his “Mountaintop” speech in April 3, 1968, the end of those shantytowns displayed that. However, Martin Luther King Jr. did not stop there. He encouraged his supporters to persevere even through serious obstacles and look toward the “Promised Land.” He desired the civil rights strategies employed in the future be done out of faith of journeying toward the land already awaiting for them, instead of a desire to prove victory over the government’s lack of