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King's Vietnam Legacy

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Source: A Call for a National Fast. (Ad). Clergy and Laymen Concerned About the War in Vietnam. New York Times, April 9, 1968. P. 31. "A Call for a National Fast. (Ad)." Clergy and Laymen Concerned About the War in Vietnam. New York Times, April 9, 1968. P. 31.

The Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam (CALCAV) took out an ad in the April 9, 1968 issue of the New York Times, five days after Martin Luther King's assassination, to call for a national fast. The fast was originally prompted by CALCAV's co-chairman, Martin Luther King, for the week of April 8-12, 1968. The ad called upon the conscience of a nation to honor one of it's heroes strongest convictions.


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