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There's plenty of today's fights in the history lesson offered by this incisive documentary about the surveillance war waged against Martin Luther King Jr. by American intelligence.

About the 2021 Recipient Share: The Section is thrilled to announce that it will honor legendary civil rights leader and advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Clarence B. Jones with the 2021 Thurgood Marshall Award in a virtual celebration on Friday, August 6, during the ABA Annual Meeting.  Clarence B. Jones, prominent Civil Rights leader and advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., will receive the 2021 Thurgood Marshall Award. In 1962, Martin Luther King wrote a letter recommending h...

And j. edgar hoover sent robert kennedy a warning, communists were pulling dr. kings puppet strings. two top advisors, including lawyer stanley levison, were party members who cut ties working with king. >> the bureau never came up with one iota of indication that levison or anyone else was actively working some communist line or communist influence. >> congressman john lewis, a longtime democratic power in the house, was an important young leader in kings inner circle. >> j. edgar hoover never ...

Speech as demagogic. at the time of the march on washington and "i have a dream," the fbi was already wiretapping two of dr. kings closer advisers, his lawyer, clarence jones, and another friend, stanley levison. you mentioned how just two months after the march the fbi begins to wire tap dr. king himself, both at his office and at his home. and so it is a very sort of full field coverage that the fbi, with the authorization of bobby kennedy as attorney general, is mounting against dr. king. >> ...

We refuse to believe there are insufficient funds. we have come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice, preaching a message of economic equality that i think probably sent a shudder down the spine of the repressive majority that was terrified of the black population in america. >> i think it is striking to anyone who hears or reads "i have a dream" in the present day to realize that the top people in the fbi characterized the s...

0 it is clear to me that the british parliament reflecting the views of the british people dont want to see the british reaction. i get that. >> for his part, white house deputy press secretary firmly rejected any comparison to iraq. >> what we saw in that circumstance was an administration that was searching high and low to produce evidence to justify a military invasion, an open-ended military invasion with the final goal being regime change. that was the articulated policy of the previous adm...

0 thoughts. however, congress right now very reluctant. >> many members of congress are not on board. >> some members are calling on congress. >> 116 congress members. >> the american representatives need to be a part of that discussion. >> we do need to see some approve. >> this whole debate is contaminated by the legacy of iraq. >> i am deeply mindful. >> british lawmakers are pumping the brakes, as well. >> the well of public opinion was well and truly poisoned by the iraq episode. >> because...

The press to discredit dr. king, and j. edgar hoover sent robert kennedy a warning, communists were pulling dr. kings puppet strings. two top advisors, including lawyer stanley levison, had been party members, they cut ties working with king. >> the bureau never came up with one iota of indication that levison or anyone else was actively working some communist line or communist influence. >> congressman john lewis, a longtime democratic power in the house, was an important young leader in kings ...

Obsessed with a red menace. >> police attend meetings to discuss neutralization of king. to develop evidence of kings dependence on communists. >> they leaked the details to the press to discredit dr. king, and j. edgar hoover sent robert kennedy a warning, communists were pulling dr. kings puppet strings. two top advisors, including lawyer stanley levison, were communist party members. they cut ties working with king. >> the bureau never came up with one iota of indication that levison or anyon...

Lawyer stanley levison, had been party members, they cut ties working with king. >> the bureau never came up with one iota of indication that levison or anyone else was actively working some communist line or communist influence. >> congressman john lewis, a longtime democratic power in the house, was an important young leader in kings inner circle. >> j. edgar hoover never understood, and others around him, that when youve been discriminated against, you dont need someone from moscow or someone...