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Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence", also referred as the Riverside Church speech, [1] is an anti–Vietnam War and pro–social justice speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1967, exactly one year before he was assassinated.
"Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam" 1967 -- see Video on YouTube "A Knock at Midnight," 1967 -- see Video on YouTube '"Beyond Vietnam," 1967; A longer list of speeches & sermons; Martin Luther King: His Triumphs - a slideshow by Life magazine; Tavis Smiley on Rev. Martin Luther King and His Opposition to the Vietnam War - video by ...
The clergy, often a forgotten group during the opposition to the Vietnam War, played a large role as well. The clergy covered any of the religious leaders and members, including individuals such as Martin Luther King Jr. In his speech "Beyond Vietnam," King stated, "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Records Collection Act, or MLK Records Act, is proposed legislation that would release United States government records pertaining to the life and death of Martin Luther King Jr. Versions of the law have been proposed on multiple occasions, and a complete version was brought to both chambers of the United States Congress in 2005–2006.
The film focuses on events in King's life and the civil rights movement such as the Chicago Freedom Movement, the James Meredith march, the anti-Vietnam War protests and King's "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech, the 1967 riots, preparation for the Poor People's Campaign, the Memphis sanitation strike, the "I've Been to the ...
On a hot summer day in 1963, more than 200,000 demonstrators calling for civil rights joined Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Vietnam War protestors at the 1967 March on the Pentagon. The Mobe then planned and organized a large demonstration for Washington, D.C., on October 21 , 1967. This demonstration was a rally at West Potomac Park near the Lincoln Memorial and a march to the Pentagon , where another rally would be held in a parking lot, followed by civil ...
A copy of a page of the "suicide letter" sent to Martin Luther King Jr., as published in The New York Times in 2014. [a]The FBI–King suicide letter or blackmail package was an anonymous 1964 letter and package by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) which was allegedly meant to blackmail Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. into committing suicide.