At the beginning of Martin Luther King Jr's famous "Beyond Vietnam" speech, delivered on April 4th of 1967, he announced publicly for the first time his position against the Vietnam War.
King had been leading anti-war movements for a long while before voicing a profound concern about Southern and Northern Vietnam as the tensions started rising. He explained how it was natural for him to expand beyond the African American struggle towards peace movements, recognizing a fundamental bond tying the predicament for peace and the civil rights campaign.
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