Cover of WE WILL OVERCOME in 1962 - as a speech on PICA lp At Zion Hill; learned it from Pete Seeger at the Highlander center in Tennessee (see footnote)
Cover of FREE AT LAST in 1963 - at the end of his famous Lincoln Memorial speech in Washington, D.C. with the words of this spiritual (see footnote); Free at last is also his gravemark
Cover of SAY BROTHERS WILL YOU MEET US in 1968 - ended his famous Mountaintop speech at Mason Temple, Memphis on April 3, the day before he was shot, with the opening line of the Battle Hymn: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord
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