Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize recipient. His work helped change minds and laws, and it secured greater equality between Black and white citizens in the United States. Dr King was assassinated in 1968. His murder led to riots around the country. In this film, we learn more about the civil rights movement, and how the US government attempted to curtail King's influence and put obstacles in the way of his work.
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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968)
the FBI's attitude to the civil rights covement
J. Edgar Hoover; FBI's director for 48 years (1924–1972)
William C. Sullivan (1912–1977), FBI director of domestic intelligence
the March on Washington (1963)
the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–1956)
Stanley David Levison (1812–1979)
the authorities' worry about communist influence over the civil rights movement
Wiretapping / private life
Robert Kennedy (1925–1968), US Attorney General
President John. F. Kennedy (1917–1963)
President Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973)
Nobel Peace Prize (1964)
package and threatening letter from the FBI
Selma to Montgomery March (1965)
Vietnam War
King’s attitude to non-violence
the use of informants
Poor People’s Campaign (1968)
indictment document (accusations of rape)
murder of Martin Luther King Jr. (1968)
riots