MLK/FBI
(2023, original release: 2020)

Nonfiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

Details

PUBLISHED
IFC Films, 2020
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2023
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (106 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
14726846
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Title from title frames

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 history-altering political career, he was often treated by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies like an enemy of the state. This documentary 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 hard-won

Film

In Process Record

Originally produced by IFC Films in 2020

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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