Many of our textbooks and historic films by which the great Martin Luther King Jr. is portrayed come from a Christian centric background fighting for equal justice and equal rights. What most do not know is that Martin Luther King Jr. also embraced economic socialism. Well, he also embraced capitalism. It is interesting to make note of this during the time in which he lived as a man fighting for equal rights had more battles than we tend to think about surrounding more than just racism, the threat of communism was also something that he had to contend with take a look at the links below for further consideration.
Stanford article
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/communism
Jacobin article
https://jacobin.com/2023/04/martin-luther-king-jr-mlk-socialism-class-racial-justice-civil-rights-movement