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 and a Democratic U.S. congressman spoke at a news conference Monday about preserving a treasured piece of the Civil Rights Movement.
It’s where King spoke the night before his assassination in April 1968.
The renovation is part of nearly $18 million in federal money for projects in Memphis. It includes renovating another Civil Rights landmark church that investigators say was intentionally burned last year.
