MLK/FBI
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January 16 |
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 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered today as an American hero: a bridge-builder, a shrewd political tactician, and a moral leader. Yet throughout his political career, he was treated by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies as an enemy of the state. In this virtuosic documentary, director Sam Pollard lays out a detailed account of the FBI surveillance that dogged King’s activism throughout the ’50s and ’60s, fueled by the racist and red-baiting paranoia of J. Edgar Hoover. In crafting a rich archival tapestry, featuring some revelatory restored footage of King, Pollard urges us to remember that true American progress is always slow and hard-won, and that our heroes may not be exactly who they portray themselves to be. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered today as an American hero: a bridge-builder, a shrewd political tactician, and a moral leader. Yet throughout his political career, he was treated by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies as an enemy of the state. In this virtuosic documentary, director Sam Pollard lays out a detailed account of the FBI surveillance that dogged King’s activism throughout the ’50s and ’60s, fueled by the racist and red-baiting paranoia of J. Edgar Hoover. In crafting a rich archival tapestry, featuring some revelatory restored footage of King, Pollard urges us to remember that true American progress is always slow and hard-won, and that our heroes may not be exactly who they portray themselves to be. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered today as an American hero: a bridge-builder, a shrewd political tactician, and a moral leader. Yet throughout his political career, he was treated by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies as an enemy of the state. In this virtuosic documentary, director Sam Pollard lays out a detailed account of the FBI surveillance that dogged King’s activism throughout the ’50s and ’60s, fueled by the racist and red-baiting paranoia of J. Edgar Hoover. In crafting a rich archival tapestry, featuring some revelatory restored footage of King, Pollard urges us to remember that true American progress is always slow and hard-won, and that our heroes may not be exactly who they portray themselves to be. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered today as an American hero: a bridge-builder, a shrewd political tactician, and a moral leader. Yet throughout his political career, he was treated by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies as an enemy of the state. In this virtuosic documentary, director Sam Pollard lays out a detailed account of the FBI surveillance that dogged King’s activism throughout the ’50s and ’60s, fueled by the racist and red-baiting paranoia of J. Edgar Hoover. In crafting a rich archival tapestry, featuring some revelatory restored footage of King, Pollard urges us to remember that true American progress is always slow and hard-won, and that our heroes may not be exactly who they portray themselves to be.
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