MLK

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Most people think King would be the last person to own a gun. Yet in the mid-1950s, as the civil rights movement heated up, King kept firearms for self-protection... A recipient of constant death threats, King had armed supporters take turns guarding his home and family. -Adam Winkler

Republican president Abraham Lincoln emancipated the slaves. Every black elected official after the Civil War was a Republican. Virtually all blacks were Republicans up until the 1950s including Martin Luther King and his father. -Steven Nikitas Go To Site

Martin Luther King’s home, Cobb recollected, was an “arsenal” — not an uncommon thing for blacks who felt that their lives were in danger. -Charles C. W. Cooke Go To Site

"I absolutely do not regret the ads," said Rice, 62, a native of Atlanta, King's hometown. 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. Go To Site

Dr. Alveda King on MLK: A ‘Man of God, The Preacher, The One Who Feared and Loved the Lord’

Liberal, Narrative, Religion

Dr. Alveda King, niece of the slain civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. whose birthday is honored today as a national holiday, said that one thing people need to learn more about her uncle is that he was a Christian preacher, “who feared and loved the Lord.”

MLK and His Guns

Liberal, Guns, Narrative

Most people think King would be the last person to own a gun. Yet in the mid-1950s, as the civil rights movement heated up, King kept firearms for self-protection. In fact, he even applied for a permit to carry a concealed weapon.

MLK Was A Republican | National Black Republican Association

Liberal, Racism, Narrative

Democrats Smeared Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960’s

Billboard Angers Black Activists In Houston

Liberal, Racism, Narrative

Kimau-Imani told FOXNews.com that King's niece, the Rev. Alveda King, has long argued that her uncle was a Republican, though he acknowledged there was no documentation or voting record to prove it.

Why Martin Luther King Was Republican

Editorial, Hate, Violence, Racism, Narrative

It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize blacks. The Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every civil rights law beginning with the civil rights laws of the 1860s, and continuing with the civil rights laws of the 1950s and 1960s.

  During the civil rights era of the 1960s, Dr. King was fighting the Democrats who stood in the school house doors, turned skin-burning fire hoses on blacks and let loose vicious dogs. It was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower who pushed to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and sent troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools.

MLK: Republican

Democrat, Liberal, Racism, Narrative

"I absolutely do not regret the ads," said Rice, 62, a native of Atlanta, King's hometown. 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.