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, lays out a detailed account of the FBI surveillance that dogged King’s activism throughout the ’50s and ’60s, fuelled by the racist and redbaiting 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.
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Earlier Event: December 20
CANCELLED--Matinee Movie For Christmas - Community Connections Project
Later Event: February 14
Community Connections Film Showing: "Sylvie's Love"