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Anthony Siracusa

Senior Director of Inclusive Culture and Initiatives, University of Colorado Boulder

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President Lyndon B. Johnson, right, talks with Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders in his White House office in Washington, D.C., Jan. 18, 1964.

How the Vietnam War pushed MLK to embrace global justice, not only civil rights at home

January 17, 2022Conflict & Justice

MLK’s vision for nonviolence included abolishing what he called triple evils — racism, poverty and militarism.

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