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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

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

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

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 pe...