MLK also fought for the injustices against poor people. I suspect he would have enventually shifted towards class consciousness and less on race as time progressed. We will never know how much he would have accomplished.
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In early 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders planned a Poor People's Campaign in Washington, D.C., for the spring. The group planned to demand that President Lyndon Johnson and Congress help the poor get jobs, health care and decent homes
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Poor People's Campaign: A Dream Unfulfilled : NPR
Poor People's Campaign - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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