Martin Luther King Speeches

MLK: Beyond Vietnam – A Time to Break Silence 1967

Riverside Church

Published on Jul 6, 2015

In this speech, he opposes violence and militarism, particularly the war in Vietnam.

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Transcript: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm

MLK : National Conference on New Politics 1967

An almost lost Dr. King speech, from the Pacifica Archives; this speech was given at the first and only National Conference for New Politics. It is an amazing speech which looks at American’s three deadliest sins, War, Racism and Poverty

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Transcript: https://www.scribd.com/doc/134362247/Martin-Luther-King-Jr-The-Three-Evils-of-Society-1967

The concluding 16 minutes of King’s speech to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, August 16th, 1967.

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and full text

http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/documentsentry/where_do_we_go_from_here_delivered_at_the_11th_annual_sclc_convention/

MLK Final Speech 7 April 1968

MLK final speech section: boycott Coca Cola

For more MLK resources

http://www.thekingcenter.org/

A full archive of all MLK speeches and work

https://www.nps.gov/malu/planyourvisit/ebenezer_baptist_church.htm

MLK church is now an historic archive

Gary Young : Guardian journalist, talks about his MLK Book: ‘The Speech’.

The Ramparts Article by William Pepper that led MLK to step up his anti-Vietnam campaigning

http://www.unz.org/Pub/Ramparts-1967jan-00045?View=PDF