Church where MLK gave final speech is getting a big renovation
AP News
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The church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his final speech is getting upgraded with a $1.2 million federal grant.
Leaders of Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee, and a Democratic U.S. congressman are planning a news conference Monday about preserving this treasured piece of the Civil Rights Movement.
It's where King spoke the night before his assassination in April 1968, seeming to foretell his own death in his stirring “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” address.
The renovation is part of nearly $18 million in federal money for projects in Memphis, including renovating another Civil Rights landmark church that investigators say was intentionally burned last year.