How Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Found Inspiration on a Tiny Caribbean Island
It’s one of Dr. Martin Luther King’s most iconic speeches: “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” his address to striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tenn. on April 3, 1968.
And it was born on the tiny island of Bimini in The Bahamas.
Dr. King came to Bimini, the little archipelago in the midst of the Gulf Stream 50 miles from Miami, twice — first in 1964, and then in 1968; two speeches emerged from these visits: first, the one he wrote to accept his Nobel Prize, and finally, the one for the sanitation workers in Tennessee.
He sojourned at the legendary Bimini Big Game Club, one of the great adventure capitals of this region, and went fishing with the late Ansil Saunders, who built his flats boats by hand and was the bishop of bone fishing in Bimini (Saunders passed away in 2024 at 91) — joined by Adam Clayton Powell, Jr, a frequent Bimini visitor and vacation homeowner.
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