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                                                                                                                                                         I always thought J. Edgar Hoover should be down on


                                                                                                                                                         his hands and knees blessing Martin Luther King, for
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       ”
                                                                                                                                                        had it not been for King, there would have been bloody


                                                                                                                                                            race riots. King in a way was doing the FBI’s job.


                                                                                                                                                         - Jack Roosevelt Robinson, in a phone interview,

                                                                                                                                                                               January 3, 1965












                             Jackie Robinson and Dr. Martin Luther King at the
                                         March on Frankfort, KY, March 1964.


                                Courtesy of Bill Strode, The Courier-Journal

















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