Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929-1968

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929-1968

King's speech, "Beyond Vietnam," delivered at Riverside Church one year before his murder, was the occasion on which he went public with the connections he had made between MILITARISM, CAPITALISM, and RACISM. Once he had the audacity to do that, his fate (like the fates of the Kennedy brothers) was sealed.

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