Rights Act: Vietnam War and Dream Speech

rights act: Among the landmarks of his activism are the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, ending segregation in public transportation; leading the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous I Have a Dream speech; the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act; and marching with sanitation workers in Memphis, where he declared in his last speech, delivered on the eve of his death, I've been to the mountaintop, according to Rabble. Often overlooked are the increasingly radical policy positions King took in his last years, from speaking out against the Vietnam War to forging a multiracial Poor People's Campaign that sought, as King said, a radical redistribution of economic and political power. Assassinated at the age of 39 on April 4, 1968, his much-too-short life forever changed America. Now, 50 years later, a coalition has formed anew to organize poor people in the United States into what King called a new and unsettling force to fight poverty and forge meaningful change. At the forefront is the Rev. This renewal, called The Poor People's Campaign A National Call for Moral Revival, has an audacious agenda to challenge the evils of systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, ecological devastation and the nation's distorted morality. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.