MLK: Beyond Vietnam - A Time to Break Silence
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January 18, 2010
| | Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his “Beyond Vietnam” speech at Riverside Church, April 4, 1967. | |
Exactly one year before his death, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. risked everything — his career, the support of black Americans, the civil rights movement itself — to denounce the war in Vietnam.
Speaking at Riverside Church on the Upper West Side on April 4, 1967, he called the United States “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today,” and decried the disproportionate number of blacks who had been killed during three years of fighting
.But the underlying argument of his speech was simpler still: real change, whether full civil rights for blacks or an end to poverty for all Americans, could not occur until the war ended.
- Michael E. Miller - Foreign Correspondency |
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