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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