of americans, good majority of americans disapproved of king. you look at polls from the last few years of his life, majority -- strong majority of white americans thought he was damaging the civil rights movement. and you see when he gets into -- especially when he begins to oppose the vietnam war, kings becomes persona nongrata among moderates and people who support his agenda back when he was fighting with -- when he was launching the boycott -- >> head of naacp and urban league attacked him for coming out against the war in vietnam. >> yeah. what you find these are difficult positions, he was developing a trio, the three evils of mill tarrism and poverty and racism and saw that i believe committing to those three things, was an unpopular thing, not just among the white sort of -- the bigots who he fought during the jim crow days, it was most of america.