Martin Luther King, Jr. Addresses the Vietnam War and Promotes the Poor People's Campaign

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Speaking at Belmont Plaza Hotel. (c) Getty Images.

At a press conference for Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, the great leader of our civil rights movement, reiterated his historic speech at Riverside Church (April 1967), and raised the tempo for a People's March on Washington, D.C. 

Although King was assassinated in April, 1968, the March did take place in June 1968.

Sources:

Dr. King's Vision: The Poor People's Campaign of 1967-1968.  

NYC in 1968.  Gothamist.

MLK Jr.'s Searing Antiwar Speech Fifty Years Later, By Benjamin Hedin.  New Yorker (3 April 2017)

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