In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King delivered one of his most politically charged speeches from Harlem's Riverside Church. In "Beyond Vietnam," he not only condemns the Vietnam War, but also compares ...
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, is so famous that it often eclipses his other speeches. King's greatest contribution ...
Bernice King referenced her father’s observation, “We must learn to live together as brothers or will all perish together as ...
Dr. Martin Luther King speaking in Rockefeller Park in July, 1967 Credit: Cleveland Memory Project On April 26, 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. visited three east side high schools in Cleveland, ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made his second and final visit to the Holy City in the summer of 1967. The Civil Rights leader spoke to a crowd of about 3,000 people at ...
But in April 1967, the reaction to the speech was "far worse than King or his advisers imagined," says Miller, of North Carolina State University. Johnson "excommunicated" the civil rights leader, he ...