Dr. Martin Luther King was a Republican. So say a couple of groups from Houston, Texas. One calls themselves the Houston Tea Party, and the other is a black conservative group called Raging Elephants. Recently, the groups put up a billboard that said that Reverend King was a member of the GOP.
And apparently, so does a member of Dr. King's own family. Alveda King is a member of the National Black Republican Association. And here what she has to say:
realclearpolitics/YouTubeBut some people aren't exactly buying this. Click on the title for the report from KPRC-DT, Local 2 in Houston.
I could take this at face value- or take this with a grain of salt. No matter what his political proclivity was, Dr. King remains an important figure, even after 41 years of being what many would call a martyr.
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