Author Question: When Martin Luther King, Jr. publicly came out against the Vietnam War in 1967, he cited all of the ... (Read 55 times)

lidoalex · **on:** Aug 9, 2018

When Martin Luther King, Jr. publicly came out against the Vietnam War in 1967, he cited all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

A) the war consumed funds that might otherwise be used to fight poverty in black communities.
B) black casualties in the war were disproportionately high.
C) the war in Vietnam was a civil war and not about communist subversion.
D) it was difficult to explain to African Americans to use nonviolent tactics while his nation used massive doses of violence in its fight against Vietnam.

Question 2

By 1967, King had come to believe that it was necessary to move beyond civil rights legislation:

A) and focus on the national liberation struggles of peoples of color around the world.
B) and embrace the politics of black power.
C) to eliminate economic inequities in the North as well as the South.
D) and return to the direct action tactics that had been so successful in the early years of the civil rights movement.