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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 his lawyer and advisor, Clarence B. Jones, to the New York State Bar, stating: “Ever since I have k...
And j. edgar hoover sent robert kennedy a warning, communists were pulling dr. king's 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 king's inner circle. >> j. edgar hoover never understood, and others around him, that when you've been discriminated against, you don't need som...
Speech as demagogic. at the time of the march on washington and "i have a dream," the fbi was already wiretapping two of dr. king's 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. >> david, you mentioned bobby kennedy. and i think that is also interesting to a lot of folks who thin...
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 speech as demagogic. at the time of the march on washington and "i have a dream," the fbi was already...