[stars & stripes forever]

[There’s more than a few FReeper idiots who think MLK was a Republican.]

Martin Luther King was a Republican.

http://humanevents.com/2006/08/16/why-martin-luther-king-was-republican/

[fieldmarshaldj]

Ah, the infamous (and notoriously incorrect) article rears its head again.

Covered and debunked extensively here in this thread (and I can give you plenty more going back many years for your perusal).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3242627/posts?page=23#23

[CatherineofAragon]

"Martin Luther King was a Republican."

Nope. His niece, Alveda, said he was not.

link

[Verginius Rufus]

I would assume MLK was a Republican initially, but how did he vote in 1960 and 1964? In 1960 Kennedy got credit for helping get King out of jail (although he may not have had anything to do with accomplishing that) and by 1964 LBJ had the Civil Rights Act that he could claim as his accomplishment.

I remember when Jimmy Carter ran in 1976 and won the support of Martin Luther King, Sr., AKA "Daddy King," some people dismissed that on the grounds that Daddy King was a Republican. Whether that was still true of him in 1976 I don't know.

[ansel12]

MLK was not a republican.

Here is an article written by Dr. Alveda C. King for Newsmax.

She still gets the facts wrong about blacks mostly being republican before JFK, but so many people do.

“”I have few regrets in my life. At the top of the list is the demise of two children in my womb, and one miscarriage. Next to that, I regret having said to a group of peers that my Uncle M. L. (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) was a Republican. I said that without having all the facts.

My grandfather, Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. was a registered Republican. Uncle M. L. was an independent, who in his own words tended to vote Democrat. I assumed that since granddaddy was a Republican, Uncle M. L. was too. After all, before the election of President John F. Kennedy, the majority of African-American voters were Republicans.

Granddaddy convinced a large block of blacks to vote for President John Kennedy after he helped to get my uncle out of jail during those turbulent days. Uncle M. L. tended to vote Democrat, but remained independent because he found weaknesses in both parties.””

http://www.newsmax.com/DrAlvedaCKing/King-Republican-Kennedy-Christian/2013/10/14/id/530880/