Martin Luther King Jr. Celebrations Overlook His Critiques of Capitalism and Militarism

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES: Civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., (C) is accompanied by famed pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock (2nd-L), Father Frederick Reed (3rd-R) and union leader Cleveland Robinson (2nd-R) 16 March, 1967, during an anti-Vietnam War demonstration in New York. The US is celebrating in 2004 what would have been King's 75th birthday. King was assassinated on 04 April, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP/Getty Images)

When he was assassinated in 1968, King was in the midst of waging a radical campaign against economic inequality and protesting the Vietnam War.

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