“He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the Promised Land.” 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 t...

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