Martin Luther King on Black Economic Empowerment (Coca Cola Boycott 1968)

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Description: A little known fact is that MLK advocated economic empowerment of the black community by promoting boycotts against racist companies like Coca Cola and promoting invesment in black owned businesses. Some say it was his move from politics to economics that provoked his assassination apart from his condemnation of the Vietnam war and its profit-making www.blackhistorywalks.co.uk

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