5 Feet of Fury

Was Martin Luther King, Jr. a social conservative?

Paul Tuns writes:

Whatever King thought and said in the 1950s, by the mid-1960s, he was a fully paid-up member of The Left. (…)

This may be a little unfair, but I have little doubt that had he lived to see Roe v. Wade, he would have supported abortion-on-demand eventually — as almost every so-called civil rights leader did (see Jesse Jackson), regardless of its effect on the black population.