Was Martin Luther King a Democrat or Republican ?

Answer 1

believe it or not he was a conservative republican

Answer 2

Martin Luther King Jr. voted for John F. Kennedy, a Democrat in 1960 and for LBJ in 1964. His father had appealed to JFK during the 1960 presidential campaign to secure his son’s release from a Georgia prison after King Jr. was arrested during a civil rights protest. Most African Americans were Republicans after the Civil War because the Republicans were the party of Lincoln. The Dixiecrats (Southern Democrats) represented the arch-conservative segregationist wing of the Democratic Party and were a reliable Democratic voting block, while New Englanders were staunch Republicans. Things have changed. The Republicans employed their “Southern Strategy” and now most white southerners vote Republican. It’s ironic in that their ancestors would rather have died than vote for the party of Lincoln.

Answer 3

Democrat

Answer 4

im guessing Democrat, of course it would be odd if he was in the same party as his greatest opponents, the southern democrats, but his views are more represented by the Democratic party, ever since the Democratic party began to court the minority vote.

Answer 5

He was a Democrat, but he would not resemble any Democrat you see today.

Answer 6

Democrat. "Though his public language was guarded, so as to avoid being linked to communism by his political enemies, in private he sometimes spoke of his support for democratic socialism"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.

Answer 7

I worked with him and was arrested with him, and I can tell you beyond any doubt he was a Democrat.