Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2021 #MLKDay @MLKDay

Today is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Dr King’s methods were not supported by everyone and were definitely not given full praise in his lifetime.

In MLK/FBI, Sam Pollard explores MLK’s surveillance by J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered today as an American hero: a bridge-builder, a shrewd political tactician, and a moral leader. Yet throughout his history-altering political career, he was often treated by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies like an enemy of the state. In this virtuosic documentary, award-winning editor and director Sam Pollard (Editor, 4 LITTLE GIRLS, MO’ BETTER BLUES; Director/Producer, EYEZ ON THE PRIZE, SAMMY DAVIS, JR.: I’VE GOTTA BE ME) lays out a detailed account of the FBI surveillance that dogged King’s activism throughout the ’50s and ’60s, fueled by the racist and red-baiting paranoia of J. Edgar Hoover. In crafting a rich archival tapestry, featuring some revelatory restored footage of King, Pollard urges us to remember that true American progress is always hard-won.

Read more about the documentary.

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