Most Americans are taught a sanitized version of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The man with a dream. The peaceful marcher. The national holiday.
But by the end of his life, King had become far more than a civil rights leader. He was organizing a multi-racial working-class movement to challenge capitalism, militarism, and poverty itself. He was condemning U.S. imperialism abroad and wealth inequality at home. And for that, he was targeted by the FBI, isolated from his allies, and, ultimately, assassinated.
This episode tells the full story of King's evolution: from Montgomery to Selma to Memphis. From nonviolence to economic justice. From the American Dream to the American system that simply could not allow him to live.
The Poor People's Campaign. The Memphis sanitation strike. The "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech. And the conspiracy that a civil suit and jury all but confirmed in 1999.
This is the Martin Luther King they don't want you to remember. This is the Martin Luther King we need to remember now.