“MLK’s Communist Ties” - How Stanley Levison CREATED Martin Luther King
Yeah, but it was, you know, the thing is if you pull back to the bigger picture, basically even the term civil rights, so basically what you had was in the 30s with cases like, for example, the Scottsboro Boys, which was George Floyd in the 1930s, you know, you had this basically black nationalism and black liberation here.
“MLK’s Communist Ties” - How Stanley Levison CREATED Martin Luther King
When you look at them with a 21st century historical view and you're trying to find the reality rather than the narrative, you basically see that the reality is like very, very different from the narrative.
“MLK’s Communist Ties” - How Stanley Levison CREATED Martin Luther King
So what Levison was doing was simply basically taking a Communist Party initiative from the 20s and 30s and laundering it as what we now call the Civil Rights Movement.