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How the Vietnam War pushed MLK to embrace global justice, not only civil rights at home

  • Written by Anthony Siracusa, Senior Director of Inclusive Culture and Initiatives, University of Colorado Boulder
How the Vietnam War pushed MLK to embrace global justice, not only civil rights at homePresident Lyndon B. Johnson, right, talks with Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders in his White House office in Washington, D.C., Jan. 18, 1964.AP Photo

On July 2, 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. stood behind President Lyndon Baines Johnson as the Texan signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Although not the first civil rights...

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