Martin Luther King and the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Martin Luther King once said that he became a criminal in the eyes of the FBI since his birth on 15th January 1929. Probably he never has been convinced of the contrary in his lifetime. Shortly after Martin Luther King got informed that he had won the Nobel Prize for Peace, he could read in the newspapers an interview with J. Edgar Hoover, the former FBI department chief. In this interview Hoover designated King as “the most notorious liar of the United States”. Also at a press conference Hoover spoke clearly out, what he was thinking about the black SCLC Leader. He promised that he just started with revealing “the truth” about Martin Luther King. J. Edgar Hoover wanted to uncover King as a Citizen Right Leader under the influence of the Communist Party with the aim of destroying the democratic system of the U.S.

Dr. Martin Luther King and his famous speech

We’re getting into the year 1963 in America. Precisely, we fix our attention on August 28^th. On this day a march, or rather a huge demonstration for jobs and freedom took place in Washington, D.C.. With an estimated 250,000 demonstrators, “it was the largest political demonstration ever seen in the nation’s capital”[1]. This demonstration was organized principally by a coalition of several civil rights organizations. The “Big Six” organizers were A. Philip Randolph, of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, James Farmer, of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); Martin Luther King, Jr., of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); John Lewis, of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); Roy Wilkins, of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); and Whitney Young, Jr., of the National Urban League.