Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence

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King was long opposed to [[American involvement in the Vietnam War]], but at first avoided the topic in public speeches in order to avoid the interference with civil rights goals that criticism of President Johnson's policies might have created.<ref name=kingandvietnam1>{{cite book |last1=Braunstein |first1=Peter |title=The Sixties Chronicle |date=2004 |publisher=Legacy |isbn=978-1-4127-1009-1 |page=311 }}</ref> At the urging of people such as SCLC's former Director of Direct Action and now the head of the [[Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam]], James Bevel, and inspired by the outspokenness of Muhammad Ali,<ref name=kingandvietnam2>{{cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-bevel25-2008dec25-story.html|title=The Rev. James L. Bevel dies at 72; civil rights activist and top lieutenant to King|author=Alexander Remington|work=Los Angeles Times|date=December 24, 2008|access-date=September 15, 2014}}</ref> King eventually agreed to publicly oppose the war as opposition was growing among the American public.<ref name=kingandvietnam1 />

King delivered the speech, sponsored by the group Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, after committing to participate in New York's April 15, 1967 anti-Vietnam war march from Central Park to the United Nations, sponsored by the Spring Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}
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