Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican, according to Dr. Alveda C. King, the niece of the slain civil rights leader.
“The Republican Party, historically, has supported the rights of the oppressed,” Dr. King says. “During the time of slavery, many of the abolitionists were Republicans.”
In the video, Dr. King says the issue of abortion – the rights of the “preborn” – is the issue that demands focus today in upholding the rights of all people.
Dr. King does not say she believes her uncle, Martin Luther King, Jr., would be a Republican today, but it is certainly implied, as the video was produced by the National Black Republican Association (NBRA).
A billboard campaing in Houston, Texas proclaiming MLK as a Republican has caused a stir among locals.
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I've read about this before, but I think that it is propaganda. Go to http://www.amren.com and look to download the article entitled "The Unknown Martin Luther King, Jr." It is an eye opener.
http://amren.com/ar/2009/01/index.html
The following Southern blacks were also Republican:
Jackie Robinson, Jessie Owens, Lionel Hampton
The republican party needs to purge itself of the neo-conservative faction of the party. These are new england liberals, pro defense spending (war, follow the money), social centrists (indifferent) pro central government power hungry statist that pander to evangelicals and corporatism, which gives birth to an unnatural influence in government. In a perfect world, republicans should restore and defend individual freedoms and preserve the rights of the republic and empower the people to handle the rest.
Let us not forget that the Democratic Party and the Republican Party swapped philosophical cornerstones when Pres. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964. Johnson, following the signing, even predicted as much. Until '64, the Democartic Party had deep roots in the south, and the Republican Party haad deep roots in the north. The mid-west and the west did not have a great deal of political impact except for California. That is all now reversed, plus the western states and the mid-west states are a power to be considered. Therefore, I doubt very much that Dr. Martin Luther King would belong to today's Republican Party.
Nothing new here. Most Blacks were Lincoln Republicans until FDR and the relative equality of the New Deal laws. Mrs. Roosevelt reached out to help put on the Marian Anderson Lincoln Memorial concert. She resigned from DAR becasue the rejected performance.
Kennedy and Johnson supported Civil Rights while Nixon and Goldwater rejected Civil Rights and gained the Confederate members of the Democratic party.
This is common knowledge among serious students of politics and civil rights.