The roadside stories worth pulling over for.
On April 17, 1944, a fourteen-year-old Atlanta student named Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his very first public speech here, an oration on 'The Negro and the Constitution' that won a statewide Elks contest, an early glimpse of the voice to come.
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s First Public Speech is a historical marker in Dublin, Laurens County, erected in 2008. It is one of 9 historical markers documented in Laurens County, among 73 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 32.5354, -82.9069 near Dublin. The nearest cataloged historic site is First African Baptist Church (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Where the Dream Began, Carnegie Library, and Captain Hardy Smith House.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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