He also championed freeing the slaves, his greatest legacy. His focus on individual freedoms and liberties probably would have put him the in Libertarian camp in today's American political environment. It should come as no surprise that Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Mainly because 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
He also championed freeing the slaves, his greatest legacy. His focus on individual freedoms and liberties probably would have put him the in Libertarian camp in today's American political environment. It should come as no surprise that Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Mainly because 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