would martin Luther King be considered a liberal or a conservative?

Martin Luther King was a Baptist preacher and minister. He probably had more conservative views, though he was at the onset of the civil rights movement.

If you're speaking of Martin Luther King, Jr., he never declared any political affiliation nor supported any candidate. However, the fact that he was black and worked for the rights of black people obviously makes cons call him a liberal, a socialist and race baiter.

Watch the episode of The Boondocks when Martin Luther King wakes up from a coma. Even the black dude that makes that show admits King held christian conservative values and shares the same opinion of blacks today as conservatives do. And that dude is a socialist democrat.

He sure as hell was no progressive liberal. At best he was a centrist.

Probably a connservative but the type of conservative like allen west which is an uncle tom always trying to feel accepted by the white man

Today's terminology is difficult to ascribe to past leaders and both ideologies could probably argue specific examples where they are one or the other or neither. I think the Democrat of yesterday is more a "past phase" than Republicans who still revere Goldwater and Reagan but so far as say Kennedy being a "Republican" is arguable but him resembling a "Democrat" of today is not. They have embraced a more leftist view of America than they used to.

Martin, a progressive, liberal

We don't know much about him

But his son was a famous civil rights leader

pretty much a staunch conservative--he'd be ashamed to see what his own people have allowed to happen to their families and communities

I have no idea what was in his head really.