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StoryCorps: Dr. King's Final Speech

This text is a conversation between Taylor and Bessie Rogers, a couple recollecting Martin Luther King Jr.’s final speech. The conversation was recorded for StoryCorps, a nonprofit oral history organization seeking to collect and preserve the diverse stories of people throughout the United States.
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Taylor Rogers and Bessie Rogers
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