SEE the BAY STATE BANNER's SPECIAL COVERAGE of MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

In a commemoration of the legacy and 79th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Banner provides

• a tribute to Dr. King by Charles Ogletree Jr., executive director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School, and professor of law at Harvard University,
• a chronology of his life,
• historic photos, and
• "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence," Dr. King's address in 1967 in which he declares his moral opposition to the war:

"..it should be incandescently clear that no one who has any concern for the integrity and life of America today can ignore the present war. If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read 'Vietnam.'"

See also executive editor Howard Manly's reportage of Dr. King's painstaking public opposition to the Vietnam War, in "The Call for Nonviolence Started in the Deep South and Ended in Vietnam."

source: BayStateBanner.com