was dr. martin luther king republican or democrat?

Answer 1

He wasn't either. Convicted felons aren't allowed to vote. He was just a leader on a mission.
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Answer 2

Democrat

Answer 3

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was officially neither a Democrat NOR a Republican. He was most interested in getting federal politicians to hear the demands of the civil rights movement to provide black Americans with equal rights of opportunity, employment, education and voting. In the 1950's this meant dealing with the Republican Eisenhower Administration, and in the 1960's it meant dealing with the Democratic administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. In practice, the Democratic Party ultimately proved most willing to pursue the concerns of the civil rights movement at the national level, mostly because of the legislative efforts of Lyndon Johnson, who rammed through Congress the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 despite staunch opposition from conservative Southern Democrats and northern Republicans. Northern Democrats, most of them Northeastern liberals, strongly supported the civil rights movement, and despite lukewarm support from the Kennedy Administration, Johnson threw his whole-hearted support behind the movement, even as he knew that Democratic support for civil rights would mean a major realignment in American politics as the once "Solid South" deserted the Democrats for the Republicans, just as happened in the years after 1968, beginning with the election of Richard Nixon. African Americans had strongly supported Republicans between the end of the Civil War and the start of World War II, but had begun to shift their allegiance to the Democratic Party during the New Deal of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Roosevelt's 1941 executive order requiring companies that sought wartime contracts from the federal government during World War II to not discriminate in hiring blacks was the beginning of this trend, and Johnson's efforts on behalf of civil rights cemented African American loyalty to the Democratic Party unto the present day. But while Martin Luther King certainly felt more sympathy for the efforts of the liberals centered in the Democratic Party who were fellow travelers with the civil rights movement, he was willing to work with anyone in power who could have helped achieve the movement's goals. It just happened that in the 1960's, it was the liberal, northern wing of the Democratic Party that was willing to go the whole way with Dr. King and also controlled the national agenda between 1961 and 1969, and so it was the Democrats who are most closely aligned politically and historically with the civil rights movements of the 1950's and 1960's.

Answer 4

Good question .........My answer may not be very clear but trivia research can be tricky I have found only two sources and they contradict each other...Sorry if it doesn't answer your question.....

(1)Frances Rice, chairman of the National Black Republican Association, a native of Atlanta, King's hometown states that . He "absolutely was a Republican," she insisted. "We were all Republicans in those days. The Democrats were training fire hoses on us, siccing dogs on us." It is true that Southern Democrats, many of whom called themselves "Dixiecrats," blocked the social and political progress of black Southerners for decades. Among them was Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.), a former local leader in the Ku Klux Klan. Byrd has said he regrets his affiliation.
In 1960, King was arrested for trespassing during a sit-in and held in Georgia's Reidsville prison. Fearing for his son's life, Martin Luther King Sr. appealed to presidential candidate John F. Kennedy to secure his release.
When King was freed, his father vowed to deliver 10 million votes to the Democrat, even though Kennedy was only a reluctant supporter of civil rights. That began four decades of black people voting for liberals.
The younger King voted for Kennedy, and for Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson four years later. In that election, King publicly denounced the Republican candidate, Barry Goldwater.
Today, the vast majority of black voters are Democrats, including former ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young and former presidential hopeful Jesse L. Jackson, two former King aides.
(2)Christopher Arps, a former spokesman for Rice and the association said . "Anyone with any sense knows that most black people were Republican at one time. But it's a far stretch to think that in the '60s Martin Luther King was a Republican."

Answer 5

He was a Republican because traditionally blacks were loyal to the party of Lincoln. The political identity of the blacks began to change with FDR where a vast majority voted for him but in the early 60s they were still attached to the Republicans. MLK's father was Republican but voted for JFK because of his support for civil rights. I think he was a Republican but possibly may have changed his party when Johnson signed the 1964 civil rights act.

Answer 6

He was neither.Demcrats used Civil Rights as a platform to be elected into office. .African Americans used to be Republicans until, the Republicans left during the Civil Rights movement and became Dixiecrats.

Answer 7

I would assume a Democrat. They deal more with urban issues than the Republicans do, and the KKK and other White Supremacists hated Liberals and attacked them.

Answer 8

democrat fighting liberals who wanted slavery to keep going.

Answer 9

democrat.

Answer 10

you got two guesses and the first one don't count, lol...