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How a NC professor almost built a King/Spock presidential ticket

While a historic political button suggests that the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once ran for president with pediatrician and author Dr. Benjamin Spock, the two never officially declared their candidacy. Anti-Vietnam War activists made the button to suggest the idea that King and Spock run in the 1968 presidential election as third party

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Martin Luther King Jr s 67 speech left mark on UC Berkeley

They were all piled in Dick Beahrs dad s big yellow Pontiac, like a bunch of kids going.

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Why Martin Luther King Didn t Run for President

Martin Luther King considered launching a presidential campaign to oppose military interventionism and promote democratic socialism.

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Why Martin Luther King Didn t Run for President

Why Martin Luther King Didn’t Run for President Mark Engler © Agence France Presse/Getty Early in 1967, America was mired in an escalating war in Vietnam, presided over by President Lyndon B. Johnson. A collection of liberal leaders including anti-war Yale chaplain William Sloane Coffin, prominent socialist Norman Thomas and future Congressman Allard Lowenstein were determined to recruit a serious anti-war candidate to challenge Johnson in 1968. They believed they had the perfect prospect: Martin Luther King Jr. More from Rolling Stone By 1967, King had gained stature as the nation’s preeminent civil rights leader. Against the advice of many, he was also speaking out against the Vietnam War, arguing that costly and immoral interventionism abroad was hindering progress toward racial and economic justice at home.

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