02/19/2026
“Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty I’m free at last” is on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s headstone. Did you guess correctly? Civil Rights Movement leader Dr Martin Luther King Jr. was laid to rest in Atlanta’s historic South View Cemetery following his assassination in 1968. His widow, Cora Scott King, founded the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site and moved Dr King to this tomb in 1970. The quote on his tombstone is taken from an old spiritual and was the conclusion to his famous ‘I have a dream’ speech.