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Abstract
On April 4, 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr., made his most public and comprehensive statement against the Vietnam War. Addressing a crowd of 3,000 people in Riverside Church in New York City, King delivered a speech entitled “Beyond Vietnam.” He pointed out that the war effort was “taking the young black men who have been crippled by our society and sending them 13,000 miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.” Although some activists and newspapers supported King's statement, mostresponded with criticism. King's civil rights colleagues began to disassociate themselves from his radical stance, as the NAACP issued a statement against merging the civil rights movement and peace movement. King remained undeterred, stating that he was not fusing the civil rights and peace movements, as many had suggested. Two weeks after delivering his speech, King led thousands of demonstrators on an antiwar march to the United Nations.
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