Alveda King is a Republican, but she herself was a Democrat during her time in the GA House and only became a Republican when she became a pro-life activist. Her grandfather was a Republican until the summer of 1960, a Democrat afterwards. The reference her uncle was a Republican is predicated on the assumption he was like his father, but even if he was for a brief period of time (again, we do not know if he voted for Stevenson in ‘52 & ‘56), he was clearly not one from after the summer of 1960.
The problem with these articles is that they go on a false assumption. MLK embraced a viewpoint that became more leftist and radical by the year up until his death. These aren’t views we’d embrace today as Republicans in the least. The MLK of 1955 was not the MLK of 1968. But we’ve discussed this in many threads ever since Rice’s piece came out. We discussed it in this one today:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2167898/posts
There are links to prior discussions as well. Even if it can be proven he supported the GOP in the 1950s, it would be like writing a piece on Jim Jeffords or Lincoln Chafee. We know that NY Democrat Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. endosed Ike in 1956, but that was the one and only time. They were back on the Dem plantation by 1960. They’re better off focusing on known facts, including those pertaining to the Democrat party’s racist history and contrasting it with the GOP, and covering those individuals in history we know were Republicans, such as Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.