Tolerance among Black Activists, 1966-67
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Stokely Carmichael and Martin Luther King Jr. had a disagreement as they marched side by side in the summer of 1966. Charmichael was bitter toward whites. In a speech on June 28 he described whites helping the civil rights movement as "nothing but treacherous enemies." This was antithetical to King's strategy of unity with whites, and King believed that words mattered. But Carmichael and King remained friends. Carmichael told King he should speak out against the war in Vietnam. In April, 1967, King did so in his ‘‘Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam’’ sermon at his Ebenezer Baptist Church, with Carmichael seated in the front row at King's invitation. | |
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