On April 4, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to a packed Riverside Church in Morningside Heights, a dynamic neighborhood on the Upper West Side of New York City. At this point, King was the most visible leader in the movement to advance civil rights in America. The focus of his speech that day was the Vietnam War, a subject many observers felt was “off topic.”1
Breaking his official silence on the war, King made the politically risky decision to connect the conflict to the rest of his life’s work. He urged Americans to engage with the war’s true horror and social costs, not at some vague future point, but with ...
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