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Was he a communist? I'm not saying he was a saint or anything. I'm just saying if we're gonna fuss at folks the onus is on us, especially as Christians, to make sure our accusations are correct. Did he cheat on his wife? Yes. Did he do the nasty with underage women? Yes. All while calling himself a minister? Yes. Judging him for those things is accurate.

But saying he supported communism? Nope. Here's a letter he wrote saying a Christian can't be a communist: https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/can-a-christian-be-a-communist/. MLKJr was also on good relations with VP Nixon, who's main claim to fame at the time was taking down communist Alger Hiss -- hard to imagine communist supporters having good feelings for Nixon. Basically the only link we have with MLKJr and the Communist Party comes from Kennedy's FBI -- if that's worth anything.

We do have on record MLKSr being a loud supporter of "the party of Lincoln". That changed only after the Dims put MLKJr in jail in Birmingham and MLKSr begged President Kennedy to get his son released. Only after that did MLKSr say he supported Dims (perhaps as part of a shakedown agreement by JFK).

“had delusions that the NAACP was a Communist front”

One of the founders of the NAACP, W.E.B. Du Bois was a communist. He joined the Communist Party in 1927.
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/from-the-peoples-world-archives-w-e-b-dubois-joins-the-communist-party/