Was the speech widely reported at the time, influential, intentionally ignored?
It was widely attacked. An editorial in The New York Times on April 7, 1967, declared that King “can only antagonize opinion in this country instead of winning recruits to the peace movement,” and that “There are no simple or easy answers to the war in Vietnam or to racial injustice in this country. Linking these hard, complex problems will lead not to solutions but to deeper confusion.” Apparently in strong agreement, the NAACP issued a statement against merging the civil rights movement with the peace movement. On April 21, 1967, Time magazine called the speech “demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi.” About the same time,The Washington Post wrote that King had “diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people.” In short, Dr. King was often standing alone in linking peace and civil rights. He wrote a long letter to concerned supporters of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in which he stated simply, “The presence of two evils requires us
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