The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., leads a march of 5,000 antiwar demonstrators in Chicago. In an address to the demonstrators, King declared that the Vietnam War was "a blasphemy against all that America stands for." King first began speaking out against American involvement in Vietnam in the summer of 1965. In addition to his moral objections to the war, he argued that the war diverted money and attention from domestic programs to aid the black poor. He was strongly criticized by other prominent civil rights leaders for attempting to link civil rights and the antiwar movement.
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Mar 25, 1967:
Martin Luther King leads march against the war
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This Week in History, Mar 25 - Mar 31
- Mar 25, 1967
- Martin Luther King leads march against the war
- Mar 25, 1968
- Johnson meets with the "Wise Men"
- Mar 26, 1969
- Antiwar demonstration in Washington
- Mar 26, 1975
- Hue falls to the communists
- Mar 27, 1965
- South Vietnamese forces conduct combat operations in Cambodia
- Mar 27, 1973
- Bombing of Cambodia to continue
- Mar 28, 1961
- Diem's popular support questioned
- Mar 28, 1967
- American pacifists arrive in Haiphong
- Mar 29, 1971
- Calley found guilty of My Lai murders
- Mar 29, 1973
- Last U.S. troops depart South Vietnam
- Mar 30, 1965
- Bomb explodes outside U.S. Embassy in Saigon
- Mar 30, 1972
- North Vietnamese launch Nguyen Hue Offensive
- Mar 31, 1965
- Johnson publicly denies actions contemplated in Vietnam
- Mar 31, 1968
- Johnson announces bombing halt
- Mar 31, 1972
- Fighting intensifies with North Vietnamese offensive
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