All The King's Men: A MLK Presidency

Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – October 12, 1979) was the 37th President and former American Christian minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1979.

King led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and in 1957 became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). With the SCLC, he led a successful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia, and helped organize the nonviolent 1963 protests in Birmingham, Alabama. During his campaign, he cited these successful civil rights actions as "qualifying me as President of these beautiful United States."

In his inaugural address, he gave his famous I Have A Dream, which eventually inspired his re-election campaign slogan, "He Has A Dream America!"

Many famous progressives like Huey Long, W.E.B. Du Bois and Upton Sinclair endorsed King for both his runs for President, with this, the New York Times famously wrote "All these men, independent as they are, have truly become, the King's men..."