Martin Luther King, Jr.


April 4, 1967 - April 4, 1968

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Robinson, Douglas. "Many Draft Cards Burned - Eggs Tossed at Parade." New York Times, April 16, 1967, p. 1,38.

A little over a week after Martin Luther King's speech at Riverside Church, he and other African-American leaders joined with the Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, with a march starting out in New York's Central Park and ending with speeches at the United Nations. King was joined by Dr. Benjamin Spock, Harry Belafonte, Stokely Carmichael of SNCC, the Rev. James Bevel, and Floyd McKissick of CORE. Demonstrators gave anti-Vietnam speeches at the United Nations and presented Dr. Ralph Bunche, then Undersecretary for Special Political Affairs at the United Nations. The note stated, "We rally at the United Nations in order to affirm support of the principals of peace, universality, equal rights and self-determination of peoples embodied in the Charter and acclaimed by mankind, but violated by the United States." Dr. King, who was just beginning his active stance against the war, told reporters that this was "just a beginning of a massive outpouring of concern and protest activity against this illegal and unjust war." Harry Belafonte told reporters "the war in Vietnam -- like all wars -- is immoral."


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