多选题
King's role in the antiwar movement appears to require little
explanation, since he was the foremost advocate of nonviolence of his time. But
King's stance on the Vietnam War cannot be explained in terms of pacifism alone.
After all, he was something of a latecomer to the antiwar movement, even though
by 1965 he was convinced that the role of the United States in the war was
indefensible. Why then the two years that passed before he translated his
private misgivings into public dissent? {{U}}Perhaps he believed that he could not
criticize American foreign policy without endangering the support for civil
fights that he had won from the federal government.{{/U}}
According to the passage, the delay in the antiwar movement is perhaps
attributable to which of the following?
- A. King's ambivalence concerning the role of the United States in the war in
Vietnam.
- B. King's attempts to consolidate support for his leadership within the
civil fights movement.
- C. King's desire to keep the leadership of the civil fights movement
distinct from that of the antiwar movement.
- D. King's desire to draw support for the civil rights movement from the
leadership of the antiwar movement.
- E. King's reluctance to jeopardize federal support for the civil rights
movement.