Racial Threat Quotes



This memo is yet another example of the racism and paranoia about Civil Rights within the FBI. The Director himself was a racist {620620} . Sullivan was reacting to the Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream” speech during the march on Washington just before. What made King so dangerous was that he was demanding equal rights for Black and he was very influential with the Black community. Therefore, in FBI logic at the time, King was a great danger to the United States. See {74219} for another example.