In a time of dramatic political unrest, film has a unique opportunity to look toward the past for insight on our present. Sam Pollard’s searing documentary MLK/FBI retells the story of the Civil Rights Movement from the perspective of the government, showing how FBI founder J.
Edgar Hoover and former Director of Domestic Intelligence William C. Sullivan targeted and harassed the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., until his assassination in 1968.
MLK/FBI depicts Hoover as a man who saw King as an existential threat. The film describes Hoover as feeling that Black people were more susceptible to “dangerous ideology” and that the movement needed to be contained before it succumbed to Communism.
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