I think MLK, Sr., was a Republican.
"I think MLK, Sr., was a Republican."
Doesnt count. My Dad was a Democrat, I'm a Republican.
It's an interesting factiod if MLK was a Republican, but he was against Vietnam war in 1968 and was trying to organize unions.
Ralph Abernathy went right and Republican,
and Jesse Jackson went left and liberal Democrat.
A black born in 1897 very likely would have been a Republican. And I suppose it's possible that Jr. was as well, at least by registration. As late as 1960 Richard Nixon actually expected to win the votes of a lot of black ("negro" was then the polite term) people.But Jr. was definitely left wing - not that his "content of character" criterion would be accepted on the left wing today.