Goodness. We forget that many of the civil rights leaders were murdered. Malcom X, Huey Newton, and of course, RFK.
Martin Luther King was probably the most sensible of them all, and I think that people like Daniel Lemarck finally got the message that King wasn't a communist--that King could well the right man for his time.
My question is--what if FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had stayed in office longer--would he have continued his ties to the American Mafia? Would he have made the decision to take down MLK on grounds of being a communist sympathizer? Of course, Lemarck wasn't going to continue shady ties with White Supremacists in the south.
So, that's my question--would Hoover have done what Lemarck did and leave MLK alone, or would Hoover get dirty to take him down?