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Add comment in the FBI section regarding the FBI's actions against other integrationist and segregationist groups as described in Donner's "The Age of Surveillance". Possible there was a clandestine policy to suppress all "serious" racial agitation, integrationist and segregationist. Also, possible it was felt racial agitation could not be tolerated during the Cold War. It seems obvious there was animosity toward Dr. King on Hoover's part but there may be more to it than that.
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I ran across this article originally dated Jan 14 2024 describing an MLK incident at Mary's Cafe in South Jersey and a law suit in 1950. I'm not skilled in Wiki, but scanning around for a while, I didn't find any 1950 references. This was obviously while he was at Cozer. I paste a partial copy here. I do not need an answer. I just thought mention of something as early as 1950 may be considered to include. Obviously, Jersey thinks it is his first. FYI: I saw it yesterday (the 15th), but reading it today (16th) the date shows 15th.
NJ Spotlight News:
"It’s not just that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. held his first formal sit-in on June 11, 1950, in the South Jersey town of Maple Shade, but that protest also led to King’s first lawsuit against discrimination. . . . Nichols was arrested and charged, but when witnesses failed to testify, the case was dropped."
Birth name not "Michael King Jr." but only "Michael King."
Per Jonathan Eig's 2023 book "King: a life" (ISBN 9780374279295) Martin Luther King Jr. was not born "Michael King Jr." On page 23, paragraph 5, Eig writes, "They named him Michael King, no middle name, no initial, no "Junior." They called him Little Mike."
I agree, that is likely what you will be called and referred to as, but as a simple matter of fact, Michael King Jr. was not his birth name. His birth name was Michael King. And as a web source interested primarily in facts, I believe it best to go with the factual record. Stephenwmjones (talk) 09:46, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]