Beyond the dream: 7 lesser-known facts about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
1. King opposed the Vietnam War
In 1967, one year before his assassination, King delivered a speech titled "Beyond Vietnam" at New York City's Riverside Church.
King took exception to the war in part because of the belief that resources being used to fight in Vietnam were being taken from domestic improvement programs.
"We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem," stated King.
