How the Vietnam War pushed MLK to embrace global justice, not only civil rights at home
MLK’s vision for nonviolence included abolishing what he called triple evils — racism, poverty and militarism.
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MLK’s vision for nonviolence included abolishing what he called triple evils — racism, poverty and militarism.
MLK’s vision for nonviolence included abolishing what he called triple evils — racism, poverty and militarism.
MLK’s vision for nonviolence included abolishing what he called triple evils — racism, poverty and militarism.
King saw the grinding poverty facing Black people at home as inseparable from the war overseas.
Martin Luther King, Jr. believed that Jim Crow segregation and the war in Vietnam were rooted in the same unjust ethic of race-based domination, and he called on the nation to change its ways.