Martin Luther Quotes
Martin Luther not only reformed Christianity but was a catalyst for many religious Christian alternatives thereby ending monolithic worldwide Christian religious doctrine and control. He argues that Islam must have a similar reform process.
Hoover gave this report to President Lyndon Johnson. It was 11 pages long and provided no data or proof of the many accusations. Hoover viewed the entire Civil Rights Movement as part of the Communist initiative to weaken and undermine the United States. There were no Black FBI agents and Hoover himself was an inveterate racist. The FBI worked hand in hand with local police in the South and most agents supported legal racial segregation. Hoover’s definition of a Communist varied from time to time. Johnson worked closely with King after he had read this report and discussed it with some of his staff, so it may have been that Johnson didn’t believe the conclusions. Later historical analysis showed that there were two key people that were close to King who had early communist connections earlier. Both were active socialists at the time but neither was then involved with the Russian controlled American Communist party. The Official Position of the Communist Party was a strong anti-segregation program, and Hoover and most Southern Segregationists believed that all opponents of legal segregation—including demonstrators and marchers--were Communists or were organized and Controlled by the Communists.
She was one of the first prominent white southerners to denounce racial segregation. Also, she supported Martin Luther King’s protest organization in Montgomery long before most other whites.
Levison had in his early years been involved with the American Communist Party. Then he broke with the party and denounced it. The FBI using Levison’s early history as a justification, tapped his phones and those of Dr. King’s. J. Edgar Hoover, a virulent opponent of Dr. King and the Civil Rights Moovement reported to President Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy that Levision was a communist and reported his early history. However, despite the fact that the FBI knew that Levison had broken with the communists, Hoover withheld this fact from the Kennedys who were alarmed that Levison represented a key communist influence in the Civil Rights Movement. King would not break with Levison. See {603873}, {603891}, {603872}, and {603889} showing Hoover’s view of King and Blacks.
The president and some of his aids had watched the speech on television.
The following day, Norquay publicly apologized.
