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I absolutely had this impression as well.
I also pictured the Lorraine Motel as being super fancy as MLK Jr. Was the leader of the civil rights movement.
I'm guessing that's projection, but maybe it was a bit of the curriculum, or prosperity gospel inherent in the South.
I really don't know.