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so while white students were primarily
concerned with the anti-war movement and
initially the civil rights movement that
began in the age of dr. Martin Luther
King Malcolm X Elijah Muhammad later on
Muhammad Ali played a very important
role than that they tended to dovetail
by the late 1960s and so while Martin
Luther King was shaking hands with the
president in 64 when he realized at
least in a legislative sense the dream
about which he spoke for equality to be
legislated in the civil right side by
the late 60s he had begun to speak about
Vietnam and as his voice was one of the
least radical in the civil rights
movement which later became an
increasingly radical black liberation
movement people got worried and he was
assassinated in 68 under very dubious
circumstances that many linked to his
increasingly outspoken position on
Vietnam the Muhammad Ali encapsulated it
well didn't anyone he he said he didn't
want to go and fight
America's war he said no Vietcong ever
called me the n-word he he empathized
with brown people being murdered by
white and black people for the power and
wealth of white people yes indeed it was
it was I think an important turning
point so you have this mass movement not
just in the US but around the world I
was myself a part of it at the age of 14
I attended my first type of
demonstration in Grosvenor Square in
1968 outside the US Embassy under the
leadership of Tareq Ali who's still
going strong