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so while white students were primarily

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concerned with the anti-war movement and

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initially the civil rights movement that

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began in the age of dr. Martin Luther

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King Malcolm X Elijah Muhammad later on

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Muhammad Ali played a very important

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role than that they tended to dovetail

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by the late 1960s and so while Martin

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Luther King was shaking hands with the

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president in 64 when he realized at

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least in a legislative sense the dream

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about which he spoke for equality to be

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legislated in the civil right side by

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the late 60s he had begun to speak about

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Vietnam and as his voice was one of the

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least radical in the civil rights

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movement which later became an

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increasingly radical black liberation

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movement people got worried and he was

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assassinated in 68 under very dubious

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circumstances that many linked to his

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increasingly outspoken position on

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Vietnam the Muhammad Ali encapsulated it

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well didn't anyone he he said he didn't

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want to go and fight

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America's war he said no Vietcong ever

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called me the n-word he he empathized

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with brown people being murdered by

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white and black people for the power and

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wealth of white people yes indeed it was

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it was I think an important turning

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point so you have this mass movement not

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just in the US but around the world I

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was myself a part of it at the age of 14

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I attended my first type of

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demonstration in Grosvenor Square in

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1968 outside the US Embassy under the

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leadership of Tareq Ali who's still

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going strong