Title:
The kneeling man : my father's life as a Black spy who witnessed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. / Leta McCollough Seletzky.
ISBN:
9781640094727
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Counterpoint edition.
Publication Information:
Berkeley : Counterpoint, 2023.
©2023
Physical Description:
287 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Contents:
Explosion -- The photograph -- Blues Highway -- Delta -- Black nights keep falling -- World view -- Induction -- Everybody's guilty, everybody's innocent -- Strike -- Be concerned about your brother -- Occupier -- MEM, ATL -- Triggerman -- Blown -- Invader -- Narco-9 -- Flag - CIA, Langley, Virginia -- Search for meaning -- A very cold trail -- Land -- Work of a nation.
Summary:
"In the famous photograph of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on the balcony of Memphis's Lorraine Motel, one man kneeled down beside King, trying to staunch the blood from his fatal head wound with a borrowed towel. This kneeling man was a member of the Invaders, an activist group that was in talks with King in the days leading up to the murder. But he also had another identity: an undercover Memphis police officer reporting on the activities of this group, which was thought to be possibly dangerous and potentially violent. This kneeling man is Leta McCollough Seletzky's father." -- Provided by publisher.
Genre:
OCLC Number:
on1335755437
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