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	* [[Quotes:Martin Luther King Jr.\|Quotes by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.]]		* [[Quotes:Martin Luther King Jr.\|Quotes by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.]]
			* [[Andrew Young]]

	== References ==		== References ==

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	=== Poor people's campaign ===		=== Poor people's campaign ===
	In 1968, ~~King came to~~ Memphis ~~to support a~~ [[Strike action\|strike]] of ~~sanitation~~ [[~~Proletariat\|workers~~]]. He was running for president with [[Benjamin Spock]] at the time of his death.<ref name=":0" />		In 1968, sanitation [[Proletariat\|workers]] in Memphis, Tennessee went on [[Strike action\|strike]] after two Black workers were crushed to death while hiding from the rain in the back of a garbage truck. The killings drew King to Memphis, whose [[police]] chief [[Frank Holloman]] was closely connected to the FBI. King was running for president with [[Benjamin Spock]] at the time of his death.<ref name=":0" />

	== Assassination ==		== Assassination ==

	=== Background ===		=== Background ===
	On the night of April 3, 1968, the Memphis Fire Department ordered its two Black members, Floyd E. Newsum and Norvell E. Wallace, not to report to work the next day at the fire station next to the Lorraine Motel. The Memphis [[Police]] Department withdrew its security units to five blocks away from the motel on April 4. Around 5:00 p.m., Black detective Ed Redditt was removed from his post when the FBI announced a fake assassination attempt against him. Just before the shooting, someone called police to the northeastern side of the city, away from the motel.<ref name=":0" />		In December 1963, FBI leaders met to discuss ways of "neutralizing King as an effective Negro leader." In May 1964, Associate Director of the FBI [[Clyde Tolson]] began planning the assassination while on a cruise to England.<ref name=":0" />

			On March 29, 1968, the FBI issued a memorandum criticizing King for planning to stay at the [[White people\|white]]-owned Holiday Inn Motel instead of the Black-owned Lorraine Motel, leading him to change his booking when the notice was published in the media. King was originally scheduled to stay in Room 202, which had no balcony, but an FBI infiltrator in the [[SCLC]] called the hotel and changed his room to 306.<ref name=":0" />

			On the night of April 3, 1968, the Memphis Fire Department ordered its two Black members, Floyd E. Newsum and Norvell E. Wallace, not to report to work the next day at the fire station next to the Lorraine Motel. The Memphis Police Department withdrew its security units to five blocks away from the motel on April 4. Around 5:00 p.m., Black detective Ed Redditt was removed from his post when the FBI announced a fake assassination attempt against him. Just before the shooting, someone called police to the northeastern side of the city, away from the motel.<ref name=":0" />

	=== Shooting ===		=== Shooting ===
	Two snipers, identified as [[Earl Clark]] and [[Loyd Jowers]], hid in the bushes behind the boarding house holding identical rifles and wore Memphis Police Department uniforms. Clark shot King while Jowers was a backup. The two then hid their rifles before other operatives retrieved them and ran into a group of police on the sidewalk.<ref name=":0" />		Two snipers, identified as [[Earl Clark]] and [[Loyd Jowers]], hid in the bushes behind the boarding house holding identical rifles and wore Memphis Police Department uniforms. Clark shot King while Jowers was a backup. The two then hid their rifles before other operatives retrieved them and ran into a group of police on the sidewalk.<ref name=":0" />

	At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, a bullet hit King while he was on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. His chauffeur Solomon Jones and [[SCLC]] attorney [[Chauncey Eskridge]] said his body moved upwards, indicating he had been shot from below. King was declared dead an hour later.<ref name=":0" />		At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, a bullet hit King while he was on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. His chauffeur Solomon Jones and SCLC attorney [[Chauncey Eskridge]] said his body moved upwards, indicating he had been shot from below. King was declared dead an hour later. There was never an autopsy.<ref name=":0" />

	=== Investigation ===		=== Investigation ===

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	=== Shooting ===		=== Shooting ===
			Two snipers, identified as [[Earl Clark]] and [[Loyd Jowers]], hid in the bushes behind the boarding house holding identical rifles and wore Memphis Police Department uniforms. Clark shot King while Jowers was a backup. The two then hid their rifles before other operatives retrieved them and ran into a group of police on the sidewalk.<ref name=":0" />

	At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, a bullet hit King while he was on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. His chauffeur Solomon Jones and [[SCLC]] attorney [[Chauncey Eskridge]] said his body moved upwards, indicating he had been shot from below. King was declared dead an hour later.<ref name=":0" />		At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, a bullet hit King while he was on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. His chauffeur Solomon Jones and [[SCLC]] attorney [[Chauncey Eskridge]] said his body moved upwards, indicating he had been shot from below. King was declared dead an hour later.<ref name=":0" />

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	Police found a rifle wrapped in a bedspread in the doorway of the Canipe Amusement Company. The rifle had Ray's fingerprints, but its could not be matched to the bullet that killed King. Guy Canipe said that a person who did not match Ray's appearance dropped the rifle there two to five minutes before the shooting.<ref name=":0" />		Police found a rifle wrapped in a bedspread in the doorway of the Canipe Amusement Company. The rifle had Ray's fingerprints, but its could not be matched to the bullet that killed King. Guy Canipe said that a person who did not match Ray's appearance dropped the rifle there two to five minutes before the shooting.<ref name=":0" />

	Loyd Jowers, the owner of Jim's Grill and a former police officer, had another rifle hidden in his restaurant after the shooting. Jowers admitted that he was in the bushes and that Police Lieutenant [[Earl Clark]] was the assassin. In 1993, he said that Frank Liberto paid him $100,000 to arrange the shooting.<ref name=":0" />		Loyd Jowers, the owner of Jim's Grill and a former police officer, had another rifle hidden in his restaurant after the shooting. Jowers admitted that he was in the bushes and that Police Lieutenant Earl Clark was the assassin. In 1993, he said that Frank Liberto paid him $100,000 to arrange the shooting.<ref name=":0" />

	=== Civil trial ===		=== Civil trial ===

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	== Assassination ==		== Assassination ==

			=== Background ===
			On the night of April 3, 1968, the Memphis Fire Department ordered its two Black members, Floyd E. Newsum and Norvell E. Wallace, not to report to work the next day at the fire station next to the Lorraine Motel. The Memphis [[Police]] Department withdrew its security units to five blocks away from the motel on April 4. Around 5:00 p.m., Black detective Ed Redditt was removed from his post when the FBI announced a fake assassination attempt against him. Just before the shooting, someone called police to the northeastern side of the city, away from the motel.<ref name=":0" />

			=== Shooting ===
	At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, a bullet hit King while he was on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. His chauffeur Solomon Jones and [[SCLC]] attorney [[Chauncey Eskridge]] said his body moved upwards, indicating he had been shot from below. King was declared dead an hour later.<ref name=":0" />		At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, a bullet hit King while he was on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. His chauffeur Solomon Jones and [[SCLC]] attorney [[Chauncey Eskridge]] said his body moved upwards, indicating he had been shot from below. King was declared dead an hour later.<ref name=":0" />

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	[[James Earl Ray]] was accused of assassinating King by shooting him from the bathroom of Bessie Brewer's rooming house across the street. However, the path from the bathroom window to the balcony was blocked by tree branches that were only cut down the next day. Several witnesses said that the real shooter was in the bushes near the fire station. The bushes were cut down the morning after the shooting.<ref name=":0" />		[[James Earl Ray]] was accused of assassinating King by shooting him from the bathroom of Bessie Brewer's rooming house across the street. However, the path from the bathroom window to the balcony was blocked by tree branches that were only cut down the next day. Several witnesses said that the real shooter was in the bushes near the fire station. The bushes were cut down the morning after the shooting.<ref name=":0" />

	[[~~Police~~]] found a rifle wrapped in a bedspread in the doorway of the Canipe Amusement Company. The rifle had Ray's fingerprints, but its could not be matched to the bullet that killed King. Guy Canipe said that a person who did not match Ray's appearance dropped the rifle there two to five minutes before the shooting.<ref name=":02">{{Web citation\|author=Jeremy Kuzmarov\|newspaper=[[CovertAction Magazine]]\|title=Did J. Edgar Hoover Order the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr?\|date=2022-04-04\|url=https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/04/04/did-j-edgar-hoover-order-the-assassination-of-martin-luther-king-jr-2/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229215740/https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/04/04/did-j-edgar-hoover-order-the-assassination-of-martin-luther-king-jr-2/\|archive-date=2024-02-29}}</ref>		Charles Quitman Stephens, another tenant in the rooming house, said he saw a man running out after the assassination, but said that his appearance did not match Ray's. Stephens's cab driver, James McCraw, said that the bathroom was empty at the time of the shooting. He also saw two white Mustangs, one with an [[Alabama]] plate and another with an [[State of Arkansas\|Arkansas]] plate.<ref name=":0" />

			Police found a rifle wrapped in a bedspread in the doorway of the Canipe Amusement Company. The rifle had Ray's fingerprints, but its could not be matched to the bullet that killed King. Guy Canipe said that a person who did not match Ray's appearance dropped the rifle there two to five minutes before the shooting.<ref name=":0" />

	~~Charles Quitman Stephens~~, another ~~tenant~~ in ~~the rooming house, said he saw a man running out~~ after the ~~assassination, but said that his appearance did not match Ray's~~. ~~Stephens's cab driver, James McCraw, said~~ that ~~the bathroom~~ was ~~empty at the time of~~ the ~~shooting. He also saw two white Mustangs, one with an [[Alabama]] plate~~ and ~~another with an~~ [[~~State of Arkansas\|Arkansas~~]] ~~plate~~.<ref name=":03">{{Web citation\|author=Jeremy Kuzmarov\|newspaper=[[CovertAction Magazine]]\|title=Did J. Edgar Hoover Order the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr?\|date=2022-04-04\|url=https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/04/04/did-j-edgar-hoover-order-the-assassination-of-martin-luther-king-jr-2/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229215740/https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/04/04/did-j-edgar-hoover-order-the-assassination-of-martin-luther-king-jr-2/\|archive-date=2024-02-29}}</~~ref~~>		Loyd Jowers, the owner of Jim's Grill and a former police officer, had another rifle hidden in his restaurant after the shooting. Jowers admitted that he was in the bushes and that Police Lieutenant [[Earl Clark]] was the assassin. In 1993, he said that Frank Liberto paid him $100,000 to arrange the shooting.<ref name=":0" />

	=== Civil trial ===		=== Civil trial ===

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	'''Martin Luther King Jr.''' (born '''Michael King Jr.'''; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was a Statesian Baptist minister and activist who ~~became~~ the most visible spokesman and leader in the US [[civil rights movement]] from 1955 until the [[FBI]] assassinated him in 1968.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation\|author=Jeremy Kuzmarov\|newspaper=[[CovertAction Magazine]]\|title=Did J. Edgar Hoover Order the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr?\|date=2022-04-04\|url=https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/04/04/did-j-edgar-hoover-order-the-assassination-of-martin-luther-king-jr-2/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229215740/https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/04/04/did-j-edgar-hoover-order-the-assassination-of-martin-luther-king-jr-2/\|archive-date=2024-02-29}}</ref>		'''Martin Luther King Jr.''' (born '''Michael King Jr.'''; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was a Statesian Baptist minister and activist who was the most visible spokesman and leader in the US [[civil rights movement]] from 1955 until the [[FBI]] assassinated him in 1968.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation\|author=Jeremy Kuzmarov\|newspaper=[[CovertAction Magazine]]\|title=Did J. Edgar Hoover Order the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr?\|date=2022-04-04\|url=https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/04/04/did-j-edgar-hoover-order-the-assassination-of-martin-luther-king-jr-2/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229215740/https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/04/04/did-j-edgar-hoover-order-the-assassination-of-martin-luther-king-jr-2/\|archive-date=2024-02-29}}</ref>

	King's legacy has been absorbed into the [[Liberalism\|liberal]] [[Capitalism\|capitalist]] [[Bourgeoisie\|establishment]] as a hero of nonviolence, yet his legacy as a [[Anti-capitalism\|critic]] of [[capitalism]] has been whitewashed by these capitalist powers.<ref>{{News citation\|date=2021-01-18\|title=Dr. Martin Luther King Jr: Yet Another Critic of Capitalism!\|url=https://speakoutsocialists.org/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-yet-another-critic-of-capitalism/}}</ref><ref>{{News citation\|journalist=Andrew Wilkes\|date=2022-01-13\|title=MLK ROOTED HIS ANTI-CAPITALISM IN HIS CHRISTIAN MINISTRY\|url=https://sojo.net/articles/mlk-rooted-his-anti-capitalism-his-christian-ministry}}</ref> As [[Vladimir Lenin\|Lenin]] famously said:		King's legacy has been absorbed into the [[Liberalism\|liberal]] [[Capitalism\|capitalist]] [[Bourgeoisie\|establishment]] as a hero of nonviolence, yet his legacy as a [[Anti-capitalism\|critic]] of [[capitalism]] has been whitewashed by these capitalist powers.<ref>{{News citation\|date=2021-01-18\|title=Dr. Martin Luther King Jr: Yet Another Critic of Capitalism!\|url=https://speakoutsocialists.org/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-yet-another-critic-of-capitalism/}}</ref><ref>{{News citation\|journalist=Andrew Wilkes\|date=2022-01-13\|title=MLK ROOTED HIS ANTI-CAPITALISM IN HIS CHRISTIAN MINISTRY\|url=https://sojo.net/articles/mlk-rooted-his-anti-capitalism-his-christian-ministry}}</ref> As [[Vladimir Lenin\|Lenin]] famously said:
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	== Assassination ==		== Assassination ==
	At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, a bullet hit King while he was on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. ~~He was declared dead an hour later.~~ [[~~James Earl Ray~~]] ~~was accused of the assassination and captured in~~ [[~~Kingdom of Belgium\|Belgium~~]] ~~two months~~ later.<ref name=":0" />		At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, a bullet hit King while he was on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. His chauffeur Solomon Jones and [[SCLC]] attorney [[Chauncey Eskridge]] said his body moved upwards, indicating he had been shot from below. King was declared dead an hour later.<ref name=":0" />

			=== Investigation ===
			[[File:MLK assassination map.png\|thumb\|361x361px\|Map of the shooting area. [[Bourgeois media\|Mainstream media]] claims that the shot came from the rooming house while many witnesses believe it was from the bushes next to the fire station.]]
			[[James Earl Ray]] was accused of assassinating King by shooting him from the bathroom of Bessie Brewer's rooming house across the street. However, the path from the bathroom window to the balcony was blocked by tree branches that were only cut down the next day. Several witnesses said that the real shooter was in the bushes near the fire station. The bushes were cut down the morning after the shooting.<ref name=":0" />

			[[Police]] found a rifle wrapped in a bedspread in the doorway of the Canipe Amusement Company. The rifle had Ray's fingerprints, but its could not be matched to the bullet that killed King. Guy Canipe said that a person who did not match Ray's appearance dropped the rifle there two to five minutes before the shooting.<ref name=":02">{{Web citation\|author=Jeremy Kuzmarov\|newspaper=[[CovertAction Magazine]]\|title=Did J. Edgar Hoover Order the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr?\|date=2022-04-04\|url=https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/04/04/did-j-edgar-hoover-order-the-assassination-of-martin-luther-king-jr-2/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229215740/https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/04/04/did-j-edgar-hoover-order-the-assassination-of-martin-luther-king-jr-2/\|archive-date=2024-02-29}}</ref>

			Charles Quitman Stephens, another tenant in the rooming house, said he saw a man running out after the assassination, but said that his appearance did not match Ray's. Stephens's cab driver, James McCraw, said that the bathroom was empty at the time of the shooting. He also saw two white Mustangs, one with an [[Alabama]] plate and another with an [[State of Arkansas\|Arkansas]] plate.<ref name=":03">{{Web citation\|author=Jeremy Kuzmarov\|newspaper=[[CovertAction Magazine]]\|title=Did J. Edgar Hoover Order the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr?\|date=2022-04-04\|url=https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/04/04/did-j-edgar-hoover-order-the-assassination-of-martin-luther-king-jr-2/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229215740/https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/04/04/did-j-edgar-hoover-order-the-assassination-of-martin-luther-king-jr-2/\|archive-date=2024-02-29}}</ref>

			=== Civil trial ===
	In 1999, the jury of the wrongful death suit by the King family ruled unanimously that King was killed by a U.S. government conspiracy.<ref name=":0" />		In 1999, the jury of the wrongful death suit by the King family ruled unanimously that King was killed by a U.S. government conspiracy.<ref name=":0" />

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	'''Martin Luther King Jr.''' (born '''Michael King Jr.'''; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was a Statesian Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the US civil rights movement from 1955 until the [[FBI]] assassinated him in 1968.<ref>{{~~News~~ citation\|title=Did J. Edgar Hoover Order the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr?\|url=https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/01/17/did-j-edgar-hoover-order-the-assassination-of-martin-luther-king-jr/\|~~newspaper~~=~~[[CovertAction Magazine]]~~}}</ref>		'''Martin Luther King Jr.''' (born '''Michael King Jr.'''; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was a Statesian Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the US [[civil rights movement]] from 1955 until the [[FBI]] assassinated him in 1968.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation\|author=Jeremy Kuzmarov\|newspaper=[[CovertAction Magazine]]\|title=Did J. Edgar Hoover Order the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr?\|date=2022-04-04\|url=https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/04/04/did-j-edgar-hoover-order-the-assassination-of-martin-luther-king-jr-2/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229215740/https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/04/04/did-j-edgar-hoover-order-the-assassination-of-martin-luther-king-jr-2/\|archive-date=2024-02-29}}</ref>

	King's legacy has been absorbed into the [[Liberalism\|liberal]] [[Capitalism\|capitalist]] [[Bourgeoisie\|establishment]] as a hero of nonviolence, yet his legacy as a critic of capitalism has been whitewashed by these capitalist powers.<ref>{{News citation\|date=2021-01-18\|title=Dr. Martin Luther King Jr: Yet Another Critic of Capitalism!\|url=https://speakoutsocialists.org/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-yet-another-critic-of-capitalism/}}</ref><ref>{{News citation\|journalist=Andrew Wilkes\|date=2022-01-13\|title=MLK ROOTED HIS ANTI-CAPITALISM IN HIS CHRISTIAN MINISTRY\|url=https://sojo.net/articles/mlk-rooted-his-anti-capitalism-his-christian-ministry}}</ref> As [[Vladimir Lenin\|Lenin]] famously said: ~~<blockquote>“During~~ the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.~~”</blockquote>~~While King may not have been a [[Communism\|communist]] revolutionary, he was a coalition-builder with widespread appeal to the poor and downtrodden in the United States, which made him a natural ally to communists and [[Socialism\|socialists]] struggling for a more equitable society. The FBI even believed that he was a [[Marxism–Leninism\|Marxist-Leninist]] with connections to [[Communist Party of the United States of America\|CPUSA]].<ref>{{Citation\|author=Federal Bureau of Investigation\|year=1968\|title=Martin Luther King, Jr: A Current Analysis\|chapter=Formation of Southern Christian Leadership Conference\|page=5\|quote='King is a whole-hearted Marxist who has studied it [Marxism], believes in it and agrees with it, but because of his being a minister of religion, does not dare to espouse it publicly' [...] King has been described within the CPUSA as a true, genuine Marxist-Leninist\|pdf=https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/104-10125-10133.pdf}}</ref>		King's legacy has been absorbed into the [[Liberalism\|liberal]] [[Capitalism\|capitalist]] [[Bourgeoisie\|establishment]] as a hero of nonviolence, yet his legacy as a [[Anti-capitalism\|critic]] of [[capitalism]] has been whitewashed by these capitalist powers.<ref>{{News citation\|date=2021-01-18\|title=Dr. Martin Luther King Jr: Yet Another Critic of Capitalism!\|url=https://speakoutsocialists.org/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-yet-another-critic-of-capitalism/}}</ref><ref>{{News citation\|journalist=Andrew Wilkes\|date=2022-01-13\|title=MLK ROOTED HIS ANTI-CAPITALISM IN HIS CHRISTIAN MINISTRY\|url=https://sojo.net/articles/mlk-rooted-his-anti-capitalism-his-christian-ministry}}</ref> As [[Vladimir Lenin\|Lenin]] famously said:

			{{Quote\|During the lifetime of great [[revolution\|revolutionaries]], the [[ruling class\|oppressing classes]] constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.\|Vladimir Lenin\|State and Revolution: Class Society and the State\|1917}}

			While King may not have been a [[Communism\|communist]] revolutionary, he was a coalition-builder with widespread appeal to the poor and downtrodden in the United States, which made him a natural ally to communists and [[Socialism\|socialists]] struggling for a more equitable society. The FBI even believed that he was a [[Marxism–Leninism\|Marxist-Leninist]] with connections to [[Communist Party of the United States of America\|CPUSA]].<ref>{{Citation\|author=Federal Bureau of Investigation\|year=1968\|title=Martin Luther King, Jr: A Current Analysis\|chapter=Formation of Southern Christian Leadership Conference\|page=5\|quote='King is a whole-hearted Marxist who has studied it [Marxism], believes in it and agrees with it, but because of his being a minister of religion, does not dare to espouse it publicly' [...] King has been described within the CPUSA as a true, genuine Marxist-Leninist\|pdf=https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/104-10125-10133.pdf}}</ref>

			== Activism ==

			=== Anti-Vietnam War ===
			A year before his assassination, King [[Library:Beyond Vietnam\|denounced]] the [[Vietnam War]] in a speech at the Riverside Church in [[New York City\|New York]]. [[Kwame Ture]] warned King that his anti-war views would endanger him.<ref name=":0" />

			=== Poor people's campaign ===
			In 1968, King came to Memphis to support a [[Strike action\|strike]] of sanitation [[Proletariat\|workers]]. He was running for president with [[Benjamin Spock]] at the time of his death.<ref name=":0" />

			== Assassination ==
			At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, a bullet hit King while he was on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was declared dead an hour later. [[James Earl Ray]] was accused of the assassination and captured in [[Kingdom of Belgium\|Belgium]] two months later.<ref name=":0" />

			In 1999, the jury of the wrongful death suit by the King family ruled unanimously that King was killed by a U.S. government conspiracy.<ref name=":0" />

	== See also ==		== See also ==

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	\|death_cause=Assassination via gunshot by the [[FBI]].		\|death_cause=Assassination via gunshot by the [[FBI]]
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	'''Martin Luther King Jr.''' (born '''Michael King Jr.'''; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was ~~an American~~ Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the ~~American~~ civil rights movement from 1955 until ~~he was assassinated by~~ the [[FBI]] in 1968.<ref>{{News citation\|title=Did J. Edgar Hoover Order the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr?\|url=https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/01/17/did-j-edgar-hoover-order-the-assassination-of-martin-luther-king-jr/\|newspaper=[[CovertAction Magazine]]}}</ref>		'''Martin Luther King Jr.''' (born '''Michael King Jr.'''; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was a Statesian Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the US civil rights movement from 1955 until the [[FBI]] assassinated him in 1968.<ref>{{News citation\|title=Did J. Edgar Hoover Order the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr?\|url=https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/01/17/did-j-edgar-hoover-order-the-assassination-of-martin-luther-king-jr/\|newspaper=[[CovertAction Magazine]]}}</ref>

	King's legacy has been absorbed into the liberal [[Capitalism\|capitalist]] establishment as a hero of nonviolence, yet his legacy as a critic of capitalism has been whitewashed by these capitalist powers.<ref>{{News citation\|date=2021-01-18\|title=Dr. Martin Luther King Jr: Yet Another Critic of Capitalism!\|url=https://speakoutsocialists.org/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-yet-another-critic-of-capitalism/}}</ref><ref>{{News citation\|journalist=Andrew Wilkes\|date=2022-01-13\|title=MLK ROOTED HIS ANTI-CAPITALISM IN HIS CHRISTIAN MINISTRY\|url=https://sojo.net/articles/mlk-rooted-his-anti-capitalism-his-christian-ministry}}</ref> As Lenin famously said: <blockquote>“During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.”</blockquote>While King ~~was certainly no~~ communist revolutionary, he was a coalition-builder with widespread appeal to the poor and downtrodden in the United States, which made him a natural ally to communists and socialists struggling for a more equitable society.		King's legacy has been absorbed into the [[Liberalism\|liberal]] [[Capitalism\|capitalist]] [[Bourgeoisie\|establishment]] as a hero of nonviolence, yet his legacy as a critic of capitalism has been whitewashed by these capitalist powers.<ref>{{News citation\|date=2021-01-18\|title=Dr. Martin Luther King Jr: Yet Another Critic of Capitalism!\|url=https://speakoutsocialists.org/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-yet-another-critic-of-capitalism/}}</ref><ref>{{News citation\|journalist=Andrew Wilkes\|date=2022-01-13\|title=MLK ROOTED HIS ANTI-CAPITALISM IN HIS CHRISTIAN MINISTRY\|url=https://sojo.net/articles/mlk-rooted-his-anti-capitalism-his-christian-ministry}}</ref> As [[Vladimir Lenin\|Lenin]] famously said: <blockquote>“During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.”</blockquote>While King may not have been a [[Communism\|communist]] revolutionary, he was a coalition-builder with widespread appeal to the poor and downtrodden in the United States, which made him a natural ally to communists and [[Socialism\|socialists]] struggling for a more equitable society. The FBI even believed that he was a [[Marxism–Leninism\|Marxist-Leninist]] with connections to [[Communist Party of the United States of America\|CPUSA]].<ref>{{Citation\|author=Federal Bureau of Investigation\|year=1968\|title=Martin Luther King, Jr: A Current Analysis\|chapter=Formation of Southern Christian Leadership Conference\|page=5\|quote='King is a whole-hearted Marxist who has studied it [Marxism], believes in it and agrees with it, but because of his being a minister of religion, does not dare to espouse it publicly' [...] King has been described within the CPUSA as a true, genuine Marxist-Leninist\|pdf=https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/104-10125-10133.pdf}}</ref>

	== See also ==		== See also ==

	* [[Quotes by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.]]		* [[Quotes:Martin Luther King Jr.\|Quotes by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.]]

	== References ==		== References ==
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	[[Category:Victims of assassination]]		[[Category:Victims of assassination]]

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	'''Martin Luther King Jr.''' (born '''Michael King Jr.'''; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the American civil rights movement from 1955 until he was assassinated by the FBI in 1968.<ref>{{News citation\|title=Did J. Edgar Hoover Order the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr?\|url=https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/01/17/did-j-edgar-hoover-order-the-assassination-of-martin-luther-king-jr/\|newspaper=[[CovertAction Magazine]]}}</ref>		{{Infobox person
			\|image=Martin_Luther_King,_Jr..jpg
			\|name=Martin Luther King Jr.
			\|birth_name=Michael King Jr.
			\|birth_date={{birth date\|1929\|1\|15}}
			\|birth_place=Atlanta, [[Georgia]], [[United States of America]]
			\|death_date={{death date and age\|1968\|4\|4\|1929\|1\|15}}
			\|death_place=Memphis, [[Tennessee]], [[United States of America]]
			\|death_cause=Assassination via gunshot by the [[FBI]].
			}}
			'''Martin Luther King Jr.''' (born '''Michael King Jr.'''; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the American civil rights movement from 1955 until he was assassinated by the [[FBI]] in 1968.<ref>{{News citation\|title=Did J. Edgar Hoover Order the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr?\|url=https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/01/17/did-j-edgar-hoover-order-the-assassination-of-martin-luther-king-jr/\|newspaper=[[CovertAction Magazine]]}}</ref>

	King's legacy has been absorbed into the liberal [[Capitalism\|capitalist]] establishment as a hero of nonviolence, yet his legacy as a critic of capitalism has been whitewashed by these capitalist powers.<ref>{{News citation\|date=2021-01-18\|title=Dr. Martin Luther King Jr: Yet Another Critic of Capitalism!\|url=https://speakoutsocialists.org/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-yet-another-critic-of-capitalism/}}</ref><ref>{{News citation\|journalist=Andrew Wilkes\|date=2022-01-13\|title=MLK ROOTED HIS ANTI-CAPITALISM IN HIS CHRISTIAN MINISTRY\|url=https://sojo.net/articles/mlk-rooted-his-anti-capitalism-his-christian-ministry}}</ref> As Lenin famously said: <blockquote>“During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.”</blockquote>While King was certainly no communist revolutionary, he was a coalition-builder with widespread appeal to the poor and downtrodden in the United States, which made him a natural ally to communists and socialists struggling for a more equitable society.		King's legacy has been absorbed into the liberal [[Capitalism\|capitalist]] establishment as a hero of nonviolence, yet his legacy as a critic of capitalism has been whitewashed by these capitalist powers.<ref>{{News citation\|date=2021-01-18\|title=Dr. Martin Luther King Jr: Yet Another Critic of Capitalism!\|url=https://speakoutsocialists.org/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-yet-another-critic-of-capitalism/}}</ref><ref>{{News citation\|journalist=Andrew Wilkes\|date=2022-01-13\|title=MLK ROOTED HIS ANTI-CAPITALISM IN HIS CHRISTIAN MINISTRY\|url=https://sojo.net/articles/mlk-rooted-his-anti-capitalism-his-christian-ministry}}</ref> As Lenin famously said: <blockquote>“During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.”</blockquote>While King was certainly no communist revolutionary, he was a coalition-builder with widespread appeal to the poor and downtrodden in the United States, which made him a natural ally to communists and socialists struggling for a more equitable society.

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	== References ==		== References ==
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			[[Category:Victims of assassination]]