“Debunked on FR.”
Ok, has anyone ever found MLK’s voter registration, one way or another?
I’ve not heard if they have. He would’ve been eligible to vote with the 1950 elections. In 1950, he was in Chester, Pennsylvania as a student at Crozer Theological Seminary. Whether he voted in that election is unknown (that was a Republican area, so voting Dem would’ve been a futile exercise, and Chester was curious in that it had a Black GOP political machine that lasted until past 2000, for whatever relevance that has).
I believe he was in Boston (Boston U) in 1952. If he was a registered voter there, I don’t know. In 1954, he would’ve been a resident of Montgomery, Alabama. Ditto in 1956. This was the only time it was known that he supported a Republican for President (I don’t know if he definitively voted). Although Alabama went for the ticket of Stevenson & Kefauver in 1956 with 57%, Montgomery County was one of just 11 counties to vote for Eisenhower (Ike got a plurality of 46%). Of course, prominent NY Black Dem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. endorsed Eisenhower in that election.
In 1958, he would still be in Montgomery and in 1960 became a resident of Atlanta (I believe he was considered a resident of Atlanta until his death in 1968). So any voter registrations would have to be discovered in those locales.