Rowan, Carl T. (September 1967). "Martin Luther King's Tragic
Decision." Reader's Digest, 91(545), 37-42.
Carl Rowan, columnist, commentator, and former director of the
United States Information Agency (USIA), joined the many voices
of protest over Martin Luther King's April 4, 1967 anti-Vietnam
speech given at the Riverside Church in New York City. Rowan
briefly discusses King's upbringing, his rise to influence,
and (as Rowan sees it) his fall from responsibility starting
in 1965 when King first began expressing his views about the
war in Vietnam. The main thrust of Rowan's argument seems to
be that King's denouncement of an active war against communists,
would only increase doubts over Martin Luther King's (and by
inference all African-American's) loyalty to the United States.
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