| − | There has been some speculation that Martin Luther King Jr. was a Communist, namely due to having ties to and funding from the Communists, including [[Bayard Rustin]]. In addition, an FBI investigation also uncovered a photograph of King possibly attending a communist workshop in Georgia, which was published by the Augusta Courier. King has also mentioned once that he viewed things "from a dialectical viewpoint."<ref>http://awhigmanifesto.blogspot.com/2011/11/chuck-morse-linkedin.html</ref> On the other hand, King had written a speech indicating that Communism and Christianity cannot be mixed together.<ref>http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/can-a-christian-be-a-communist/</ref> | + | There has been some speculation that Martin Luther King Jr. was a Communist, namely due to having ties to and funding from the Communists, including [[Bayard Rustin]]. In addition, an FBI investigation also uncovered a photograph of King possibly attending a communist workshop in Georgia, which was published by the Augusta Courier. King has also mentioned once that he viewed things "from a dialectical viewpoint."<ref>http://awhigmanifesto.blogspot.com/2011/11/chuck-morse-linkedin.html</ref> As noted above, the likes of [[J. Edgar Hoover]] also attempted to have King investigated from suspicions of these ties. On the other hand, King had written a speech indicating that Communism and Christianity cannot be mixed together.<ref>http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/can-a-christian-be-a-communist/</ref> |