List of Sources:

King, Jr., Martin Luther.  “Address at the Conclusion of the Selma to Montgomery March,”

Stanford University, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the global freedom struggle, accessed January 15, 2015 from http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/documentsentry/doc_address_at_the_ conclusion_of_selma_march.1.html [=A]

King, Jr., Martin Luther.  “Address at the Conclusion of the Selma to Montgomery March,”

Stanford University, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the global freedom struggle, accessed January 15, 2015 from https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/address-conclusion-selma-montgomery-march [=B]

Audio of the entire speech can also be heard at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44RN0C5jLDc&t=11s (run time 29:22)

Audio excerpts of the speech can be heard at:

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIT0ra9-mTc (run time 1:59)
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-2cdepImTQ  (run time 2:00)
    • Paragraph 35 – paragraph 42 (end)
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOubonZQEzM (run time 5:28)
    • Paragraph 1- middle of paragraph 5
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFhcR362RyE (from 13:49 to 15:30)
    • Middle of paragraph 17 – paragraph 24

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Notes:

Speech was delivered from a flatbed truck parked on Dexter Avenue in front of the Alabama State Capital.

Words in parentheses within the text are spoken by others including audience members and people on the flatbed truck near Dr. King.