Don’t Overlook Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King condemned the brutality of the Vietnam War and criticized how it drained money from housing, health care, and jobs.
Vice President-elect Hubert H. Humphrey (left), alongside Coretta Scott King (center), and Dr Martin Luther King, Jr (right), at a rally at Harlem’s 369th Regiment Armory on December 17, 1964. (Library of Congress)
On June 8, 1965, Coretta Scott King spoke at the Emergency Rally on Vietnam, which drew 18,000 people at Madison Square Garden.
“Ultimately, there can be no peace without justice, and no justice without peace,” she declared, deeming peace and human rights the “two great moral issues of our time.”
This is the opening scene of historian Matthew F. Delmont’s Until the Last Gun Is Silent — a fitting way to set the stage before the book delves into the inseparable histories of the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s.
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