Martin Luther King, Jr. (President King)

Note: President King is a timeline where in Martin Luther King, Jr. became the 38th president of the United States of America.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was the 38th President, and the first Afro-American President of the United States of America having been President Hubert Humphrey's VP during Humphrey's resignation in November 1968. This resignation made MLK the 38th President of the USA, and the first in many years to not be an official member of one of the main political parties- having faced racism and fought it along side members of both parties during his years as a political activist. Despite this his support of Humphrey in the 1968 election has most historians considering him a democrat who found bipartisan support where he could.

Background on Divergence
While Martin Luther King, Jr. had great respect for Democrat Humphrey's courage in supporting the Civil Rights Act of 1964 during his term as a senator, and wrote him a letter of gratitude. This correspondence lead to further correspondence and Humphrey, after Lyndon B. Johnson dropped out of the primaries, approached MLK with the offer of being his running mate in the election. This move was viewed as politically suicidal yet the two won against Nixon and Agnew. After a plan crashed into the white house in November 1968 Humphrey resigned, leaving MLK as the 38th President of the USA.

VP
Martin Luther King, Jr. was VP when Humphrey announced the withdraw of troops form Vietnam.

Contributor Sources
(this location set aside for sources regarding MLK's political standings, US politics in the era, etc for the purpose of developing an image of what MLK's presidency may have been like had it happened.)