Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stands apart from the other civil rights leaders of the 20th century.
director J. Edgar Hoover’s paranoia that a Black messiah would emerge to provoke this nation’s oppressed Black masses to revolution.
But King was far from a lone messiah.
Among those who took inspiration from King was Medgar Evers; they and Malcolm X formed what James Baldwin called the great trio of the civil rights movement.
Evers, the then-32-year-old Mississippi field secretary for the N.A.A.C.P., first wrote to King in 1956, hoping to bring him to his home state.
Persons:
Martin Luther King Jr, J, Edgar Hoover’s, King, — King, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, James Baldwin, Evers, Washington . Evers, “, ’
Organizations:
University of Mississippi Law School
Locations:
Montgomery, Ala, Washington ., Mississippi, Europe