The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Seletzky Leta McCollough
The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Seletzky Leta McCollough The intimate and heartbreaking story of a Black undercover police…
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The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Seletzky Leta McCollough
The intimate and heartbreaking story of a Black undercover police officer who famously kneeled by the assassinated Rev. Dr. 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. Martin Luther King Jr--and a daughter's quest for the truth about her fatherIn the famous photograph of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
This kneeling man is Leta McCollough Seletzky's father.Marrell McCollough was a Black man working secretly with the white power 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.