In a remarkable and prescient 1967 speech, delivered at a Nation conference in Los Angeles, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. painted a picture of a society that looks remarkably like the one we live in today. It was at this gathering, as Katrina vanden Heuvel writes, before an overflow crowd at the Beverly Hills Hilton on February 25, that Dr. King first came out, courageously, eloquently and unequivocally, against the Vietnam war. Two months later, on April 4th, King delivered his famous antiwar sermon at Riverside Church in New York City.
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