Organize a public reading of Dr. King’s famous speech “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” which denounces the triple evils of racism, materialism, and militarism.
Download posters of Martin Luther King Jr.
Listen to an audio recording of Dr. King delivering “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” on April 4, 1967.
Other speeches by Martin Luther King Jr.
“I Have a Dream” delivered at the Lincoln Memorial, August 28, 1963
Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, December 10, 1964
“Our God Is Marching On,” (How Long? Not Long!) March 25, 1965—this speech is in multiple sections.
“Where Do We Go From Here?” August 16, 1967
“I’ve Been To The Mountaintop” Dr. King’s last speech, Memphis, Tennessee, April 4, 1968
The King Center, established in 1968, has extensive resources on Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, philosophy of nonviolence, and activism.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research & Education Institute at Stanford University has overseen the official publication of Dr. King’s papers and has developed important resources from these materials. The Institute’s Liberation Curriculum includes lesson plans and historical materials pertaining to the modern African-American freedom struggle and King’s vision of a just and peaceful world.
Martin Luther King’s Call to Action on Nuclear Disarmament
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was passionate about nuclear disarmament. He was not a latecomer to the issue, writing about it as early as 1951, nor did he see it as a single issue, asking in 1959, “What will be the ultimate value of having established social justice in a context where all people, Negro and White, are merely free to face destruction by strontium 90 or atomic war…. Today the choice is no longer between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence.” In 1968 he declared, “[T]he alternative to disarmament…. will be a civilization plunged into the abyss of annihilation, and our earthly habitat will be transformed into an inferno that even the mind of Dante could not envision.” LEARN MORE. See also, Why MLK Day is a Big Deal in Hiroshima.
