Please can someone clear this up. I want to know how, where, who and why. No doubt it was some easy way out tactic to mask racism, but by whom?
2007-01-15 05:18:18 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I don't belive he was, myself. Read the question please.
2007-01-15 10:08:12 · update #1
J. Edgar("There is no mafia.") Hoover was especially afraid of Dr. King. In an effort to discredit his work, a label of "communist" was attached to Dr. King and the entire Civil Rights movement. Ideas, such as, unionization, equality and the formation of grassroots groups dedicated to improving the society were deemed to be communist led.
Research, Senator Joseph McCarthy, R-WI, during the 1950's. "Fear on Trial", by John Henry Faulk, who was the only person to "successfully" sue for being "black-listed" during that time of communist witch-hunting. Just as today, labels are applied to any critic of the government's policies.
Prior to 2001, the surveillance conducted against Dr. King and others was illegal, but "justified" by the "national security" gambit.
2007-01-15 06:13:02 · answer #1 · answered by S. B. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
J. Edgar Hoover believed he was a communist . His belief in the ideas odf liberation theology and his involvement in the anti war movement concerning Vietnam led Hoover to believe he was un-American. At the time of the Cold War communism was on the lam from the FBI and CIA. His standby for the garbage collectors in Memphis was his wholesale view about the necessity of unions which Hoover ,his predecessors and contemporaries was believed to be infiltrated by Communisiic sympathizers and ideology. His theology of liberation or for civil rights has agreat basis in Latin America and other third world countries but unfortunately it has also been a banner for communism.
2007-01-15 05:39:31 · answer #2 · answered by Dave aka Spider Monkey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the 50's and 60's anyone who was anti-establishment was automatically labelled a Communist. Hoover tried to tag King with this label. It had no basis in fact.
2007-01-15 05:28:49 · answer #3 · answered by balderarrow 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Its true. he was investigated by the FBI for many years. J. Edgar Hoover personally oversaw it.
2007-01-15 05:22:44 · answer #4 · answered by jenna 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dn't think he was...but so what if he was....
2007-01-15 06:01:42 · answer #5 · answered by (_)iiiiD 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋