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Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence

1967 speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr.

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

"Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence", also referred as the Riverside Church speech, is an anti–Vietnam War and pro–social justice speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1967, in New York City exactly one year before he was assassinated.

Editorial summary

“Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” enters the record as 1967 speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Beyond, Vietnam and Time can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1967—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Beyond, Vietnam and Time.
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Why this record matters

“Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Beyond, Vietnam and Time provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1967.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence primary sources, Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence archive and Beyond research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.