MLK’s Beyond Vietnam: The Riverside Church Speech That Shocked America
What happens when an iconic leader chooses conscience over popularity? In Season 1, Episode 200 of The Optimistic Beacon, host Dr. Ray Calabrese takes you into the storm of 1967—a pivotal turning point in civil rights movement history. By the mid-1960s, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a celebrated national hero and Nobel Peace Prize laureate with direct access to the White House. Yet, he was privately agonizing over the devastating human cost of the Vietnam War and the systematic defunding of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s "War on Poverty."
Despite fierce warnings from his closest…
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