Some of Martin Luther King's Major Statements on War, Peace, and Nonviolent Resistance

Statement by Alabama Clergymen, April 12, 1963, prompted King to respond with:

Letter from a Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963

King Accepts the Nobel Peace Prize, December 10, 1964

Beyond Vietnam, April 4, 1967.  King rejects the view that the civil rights movement at home and the war abroad are unconnected.

Martin Luther King, Jr. On War and Peace, a dramatic reading composed of excerpts from these and other statements


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