[gimme1ibertee]

This is excellent as well!
http://www.nationalblackrepublicans.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=pages.DYK-Why+MLK+was+a+Republican

[ansel12]

"It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans."

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That is a pretty flaky source at that link. In the King era almost all blacks were not republicans.