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As
the number of U.S. soldiers fighting and dying in Vietnam
continued to increase during the mid-1960s, Martin Luther King
Jr. found himself in a tough spot with President Lyndon B.
Johnson.
It
was Johnson who had signed into law both the Civil Rights Act
of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It was Johnson who
orchestrated the Great Society programs that promised social
uplift and racial equality. But LBJ was also at the heart of
the escalation of the war.
Though
his advisers urged him not to speak out against the war, King
ultimately did, often and loudly. For King, “silence had
become betrayal.” Hajar Yazdiha writes
about King’s views on war − and what he might say about peace
in the Middle East. “This is the story of the anti-war King
who understood that violence begets violence and that the
political courage to speak for peace is essential to
democracy.” |
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Howard Manly
Race + Equity
Editor | |
Hajar Yazdiha, USC Dornsife College of Letters,
Arts and Sciences
Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr. knew the political consequences of
speaking out against the Vietnam War − and he did it
anyway. |
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Subject: Martin Luther King on war, and what it takes to
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