Rodney Rivers Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 I was seeing a great documentary on HBO called 'Sing Your Song' about the life of Harry Belafonte. It covers his life especially during the early Civil Rights movement. I never knew this, but he goes onto saying in the documtary that in 1960, MLK was arrested in Atlanta for a traffic stop but they trumped up charges and were going to sentence him to work on the chain gang. Belafonte and others in the movement went to the 2 running Presidential candidates and Nixon ignored them, while the Kennedys did something. JFK made RFK go down to Atlanta and got MLK out of jail. I was really surprised to hear that since it's never mentioned anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Colby Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 Thanks for bringing this up, I was not previously aware of it either. King wrote about the incident in his autobiography http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/kingweb/publications/autobiography/chp_15.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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