Memphis, the Prophecy Martin Luther King Junior is and will always be one of the most influential civil rights activists through out the history of America. As a Christian, Martin used his knowledge of the bible and passion for the freedom of the oppressed to marshal against the oppression from the government and the related institutions. One of the speeches that set the stage for Martin, as the great orator that he was, is the famous ‘I Have a Dream Speech’. This had been in Washington where he had managed to organise a massive rally back in the year 1963. He was one of the fiercest campaigners against the racial profiling that was vile at the moment. Most of the black Americans had been through the slavery period or majority of the parents and their grand parents had been affected directly. At the time Martin was growing up, most of the African Americans were regarded with disdain by the rest of the white populace.