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The same apathetic, racist
mindset of the Rodney King
jury in Los Angeles, brought
down Martin Luther King, Jr.
in April of 1968. This fact is
strongly implied in Dr. Mark
Hyman's recent book, The
America That Killed King.
The author identifies
several powerful forces in
America which strove to block
King's movement. The most
influential of all was the
Federal Bureau of Investiga­
tion at the Justice Department
in Wasnlngton. J. Edgar
Hoover was publicly disdain­
ful of King and called him the
most dangerous man in
America. He maintained this even after a sniper killed President John
F. Kennedy.
The book focuses on the Ku Klux Klan, White Citizens Council
and hidden rifle clubs.
Among King's opponents was a fictional Chicago Black minister.
William Caves was rewarded 'handsomely by the FBI for his role as
Judas. The FBI created a story of communist infiltration into King's
camp in order to put public pressure on the Kennedys. The nation,
Hoover rightly felt, would exert such public pressure on the White
House that King's marches might be met by federal troops.
. The viewpoint of the book is mainly from the eyes of the FBI and
American big business represented by a fictional pest named Orville
Conglo. The latter used hi corporations gifts to Hoover and ranking
defense officials to push them into using federal force against King.
They never did.
It was the strategy of Conglo and Hoover to call King's marchers,
if only one gun was among them, to label them an armed rebellion.
DR. MARK tWMAN
DR. HYMAN uses fiction because "It showed the stupidity of
American reality and values." For example the enormous amount of
taxpayers money spent following King on planes, taping his personal
life in hotel rooms. An agent in Europe tailed the minister to the
democracy and pomp of the Nobel Peace "Prize ceremony in Oslow.
Federal agents, earning up to 50,000 dollars a year, spent time trailing
friends and acquaintances of the-minister, even those who had lunch
or dinner wi th him ..
Money was spent to follow this holy man as he walked the streets
of America preaching love, forgivenes , brotherhood and
democracy .... especially non-violence. Yet, some part of America
found him on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis and
brought him down. Hyman claims that racism is, the oldest political
ladder in the country. Fictional character Duke David Winslow, a
smooth white man, used the backs of Birmingham Klansmen to rise
to the Congress of the United States. .
The American' That Killed King i publi hed by The Way Publish­
ing Company, a Philadelphia Company located at 5070 Parkside
Avenue.
This book is Dr. Hyman's third major publication. Blacks Who
Died For Jesus: A History Book is published by Derek Winston in
Nashville. Black Shogun of Japan is published by Free Africa Press
in Trenton, New Jersey.
Mark Hyman Is.the first African American to win the world' first
doctorate in African American Studies. He was awarded the Ph.D.
in 1992
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