Socialism for the Rich: Dr. King’s Final Unfinished Campaign
What if the most radical chapter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life has been quietly left out of the history books? In Season 1, Episode 201 of The Optimistic Beacon, Dr. Ray Calabrese takes you inside the final, sobering frontier of Dr. King’s mission: his ultimate campaign for structural economic justice. By 1968, Dr. King realized that integrating lunch counters and securing voting rights was only the first stage of a much larger revolution. He looked at the systemic, generational poverty gripping northern cities like Chicago and Detroit and recognized a painful truth—legal segregation…
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