MLK at Riverside (1967) w/ Peniel Joseph

This Day in Esoteric Political History

Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia

History

4.6 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

It’s April 4th. This day in 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr delivers his “Beyond Vietnam” speech at Riverside Church in New York City.

Jody, Niki, and Kellie are joined by Peniel Joseph of UT-Austin to discuss the speech, King’s anti-war stance, and the reaction to his remarks at the time.

Peniel’s latest book is “The Sword and the Shield.”

Find a transcript of this episode at: https://tinyurl.com/esoterichistory

This Day In Esoteric Political History is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.

If you want to support the show directly, you can do so on our website: ThisDayPod.com

Get in touch if you have any ideas for future topics, or just want to say hello. Our website is thisdaypod.com Follow us on social @thisdaypod

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day an esoteric political history from radiotopia.
0:07.0	My name is Jody Avergan.
0:10.0	This day, 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech at Riverside Church in New York
0:17.3	City condemning the Vietnam War.
0:19.9	This is one of King's most famous speeches.
0:22.4	We'll talk about its kind of place in the public
0:23.9	imagination, but it is one of his most famous speeches, often referred to as his Riverside
0:28.3	speech or his Vietnam speech, and it showed how he was becoming more outspoken about the war in his final years.
0:34.4	I don't think we need much more of an intro, but I will point out that the title of the speech
0:38.1	is actually beyond Vietnam, a time to break the silence, so maybe there's more going on there than just a
0:44.2	speech about the Vietnam War so here to discuss are as always Nicole hammer of
0:48.5	Columbia and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley hello Hello, Jody.
0:53.0	Hey there.
0:54.3	And our special guest for this episode
0:55.8	is Professor Peneel Joseph at the University of Texas
0:58.8	at Austin.
0:59.4	His latest book is The Sword and the Shield. Penile, thank you for doing this.
1:04.0	Thanks for having me.
1:05.0	And let's start with you.
1:06.0	Why Riverside Church and why the spring of 1967 for this speech?
1:11.0	Yeah, well, Riverside really really announces Dr King as a radical anti-imperialist
1:16.9	revolutionary publicly and King was really under a lot of pressure. King had come out against the Vietnam War.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.