Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Panther Party Shared Many of the Same Ideologies

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Panther Party Shared Many of the Same Ideologies

In December 1967, just months before his death, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. announced his Poor People’s Campaign , a radical anti-poverty crusade that aligned with the leader’s democratic socialist beliefs . King’s support of the Memphis Sanitation Strikers — the group he was supporting in Tennessee, where he was killed 50 years ago today — was part of his allegiance to the well-being of low-income people across the country.

In the recent discourse surrounding protests by members of the National Football League , pundits and politicians somehow believe that King would never disrupt traffic, block bridges, or protest the […]

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