By Mr. Michael Rhodes
Wednesday, August 28, 2013 will mark the 50th anniversary of “The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom”. The keynote speaker of that momentous event in the history of the civil rights movement in America was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As recently declassified records reveal, in the spring of 1961, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had identified him as “Rev. Martin Luther King, integrationist.”
FBI File: 100-112434 Sec. 7, Serials 118 – 132X
Presented here are just three pages from a voluminous FBI dossier on the activities and associates of Frank Wilkinson, an American activist opposed to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and the FBI. The document presented here references Martin Luther King, Jr. because he signed a petition asking President John F. Kennedy to overturn the 1959 convictions of both Frank Wilkinson and Carl Braden for contempt of Congress.
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Source: File 100-112434 Section 7, Serials 118 – 132X; Frank Wilkinson v. FBI;
Records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Record Group 65; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD.