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Line 56: − − + + − Martin Luther King Jr. professed no political affiliation.+ − − SOURCE: − − King Institute Standford University − − King Papers − − − − Interview at Bennett College. − Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr.+ − Date: February 11, 1958+ − Location: Greensboro, N.C.+ − Genre: Interview+ − QUOTE:-+ − “I don't think the Republican party is a party full of the almighty God nor is the Democratic party. They both have weaknesses … And I'm not inextricably bound to either party.”-MLK JR+
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=="I Have A Dream"==
=="I Have A Dream"==
Dr. King's monumental speech at a huge gathering in Washington, D.C., electrified the nation. Many people who had not previously considered equal rights for blacks to be an important issue were impressed with the many points he made in his speech about racial [[discrimination]]. His eloquent theme of "Let freedom ring" (reminiscent of Archibald Carey's 1951 sermon)<ref>[http://www.snopes.com/history/american/mlking.asp Four Things About King] Snopes</ref> likewise motivated many Americans, particularly white Judeo-Christians, to take up the cause of integration.
Dr. King's monumental speech at a huge gathering in Washington, D.C., electrified the nation. Many people who had not previously considered equal rights for blacks to be an important issue were impressed with the many points he made in his speech about racial [[discrimination]]. His eloquent theme of "Let freedom ring" (reminiscent of Archibald Carey's 1951 sermon)<ref>[http://www.snopes.com/history/american/mlking.asp Four Things About King] Snopes</ref> likewise motivated many Americans, particularly white Judeo-Christians, to take up the cause of integration.
==Political affiliation==
==Political affiliation==
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Time and time again, liberals claim that MLK was a [[Democrat]]. Liberals point to the people he associated with or that he opposed [[Barry Goldwater]] as proof that MLK was a Democrat. There is considerable evidence that he was not a Democrat. Martin Luther King Sr. was a [[Republican]], that would almost certainly make his son a Republican. Only after his son was arrested did King Sr. plead to [[President Kennedy]] for his safe release. It is noted at that point MLK Sr. switched parties to support Kennedy. This despite Kennedy voting against the 1957 [[Civil Rights Act]] and being initially opposed to the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King. The March on Washington was organized by A. Phillip Randolph, who was a black Republican. In addition, [[Attorney General]] [[Robert Kennedy]] allowed the [[FBI]] to wiretap MLK Jr's phone due to suspicion that Dr. King's associates were [[Communist]] and pry into his personal life; this was later expanded during Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency; which undermined King.<ref>[http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16500 Why Martin Luther King Was Republican, Human Events, August 16, 2006]</ref><ref>Herst, Burton (2007). ''Bobby and J. Edger''. pp. 372–74</ref>
It was the Republicans who led the way to free the slaves nearly one-hundred years earlier; that fact was not lost on his generation. Frances Rice, chairman of the National Black Republican Association said, [he] "absolutely was a Republican," and "We were all Republicans in those days. The Democrats were training fire hoses on us, siccing dogs on us."<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/18/AR2006101801754.html Controversial Ad Links MLK, GOP, Washington Post, October 19, 2006]</ref> In the 1960s, King would have witnessed the Democrat parties position on pro-[[segregation]], against the Civil Rights Act. King was most likely aware of high-profile Democrats such as [[Al Gore]] Sr. and the [[Exalted Cyclops]] [[Robert Byrd]] voting against repealing segregation. Southern Democrats rallied around [[Jim Crow]] laws and Black Codes which were targeted against King's message. [[Dixiecrat]]s blocked the social and political progress of black Southerners for decades. Was King unaware? Doubtful. It was Republican [[President Eisenhower]] who began the push for integrating all-white schools and the desegregation of the military. To think King was a witness to all the upheaval Democrats caused and then became a champion of Democrats is a stretch.
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/interview-bennett-college
=== Communist? ===
There has been some speculation that Martin Luther King Jr. was a Communist, namely due to having ties to and funding from the Communists, including [[Bayard Rustin]]. In addition, an FBI investigation also uncovered a photograph of King possibly attending a communist workshop in Georgia, which was published by the Augusta Courier. King has also mentioned once that he viewed things "from a dialectical viewpoint."<ref>http://awhigmanifesto.blogspot.com/2011/11/chuck-morse-linkedin.html</ref>
The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] was under written directive from Attorney General [[Robert F. Kennedy]] when it began [[wiretap|wiretapping]] King's telephone line in the fall of 1963.<ref>{{cite book|title=The FBI: A Comprehensive Reference Guide|last= Theoharis | first= Athan G. |first2=Tony G.|last2=Poveda|first3=Richard Gid|last3=Powers|first4=Susan|last4=Rosenfeld|page=148|isbn=0-89774-991-X| publisher=Greenwood Publishing | year=1999}}
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John Kennedy was concerned that public allegations of communists in the SCLC would derail the administration's civil rights initiatives. He warned King to discontinue these associations and later felt compelled to issue the written directive that authorized the FBI to wiretap King and other SCLC leaders. The FBI used the incidental details caught on tape over the next five years in attempts to force King out of his leadership position, in the [[COINTELPRO]] program.<ref>{{cite book| title=The FBI: A Comprehensive Reference Guide|last=Theoharis|first=Athan G.|first2=Tony G.|last2=Poveda|first3=Richard Gid|last3=Powers|first4=Susan|last4=Rosenfeld| page=123|isbn=0-89774-991-X|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=1999}}</ref>
On the other hand, King had written a speech indicating that Communism and Christianity cannot be mixed together.<ref>http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/can-a-christian-be-a-communist/</ref> In addition, his personal friendship with Nixon, the latter of whom had been instrumental in exposing [[Alger Hiss]] as a communist spy, would have made any adherence to Communism very unlikely.
==Theology==
==Theology==