3. Ibid.
4. Report of the Department of Justice Task Force to Review the FBI Martin Luther King, Jr., Security and Assassinations Investigations, January 11, 1997, 29, National Archives, Washington, DC.
5. Georgia Davis Powers, author interview, Louisville, March 15, 2013.
6. Powers, I Shared the Dream, 222.
7. Ibid., 221.
8. Edward T. Brethitt, interview transcript by Betsy Brinson, February 24, 2000, Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky Oral History Project, Kentucky Historical Society, Lexington.
9. Powers interview.
10. Powers, I Shared the Dream, 85.
11. Ibid., 96.
12. Powers, I Shared the Dream, 100.
13. Ibid., 146.
14. Ibid., 172.
15. Ibid., 180.
16. Powers interview.
17. Powers, I Shared the Dream, 145–46.
18. Powers interview.
19. Powers, I Shared the Dream, 136.
20. Ibid., 162.
21. Powers interview.
22. Ibid.
23. Garrow, Bearing the Cross, 621.
24. Powers interview.
25. Powers, I Shared the Dream, 225–27.
CHAPTER 17: HOME PRESSURES
1. Marc Perrusquia, “Martin Luther King Jr.’s Last 32 Hours,” Commercial Appeal, April 4, 2013.
2. King, My Life with Martin Luther King, 290.
3. Abernathy, Partners to History, 193.
4. King, My Life with Martin Luther King, 58.
5. Coretta Scott King as told to Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds, My Life, My Love, My Legacy (New York: Henry Holt, 2017), 166.
6. Carson, Martin’s Dream, 191.
7. King, My Life, My Love, My Legacy, 7–10.
8. King, My Life with Martin Luther King, 24.
9. Carson, Martin’s Dream, 182.
10. Garrow, Bearing the Cross, 38.
11. Branch, At Canaan’s Edge, 677.
12. Fairclough, To Redeem the Soul of America, 391.
13. King, My Life, My Love, My Legacy, 97.
14. King, My Life with Martin Luther King, 142.
15. Dyson, I May Not Get There with You, 298.
16. Cotton, If Your Back’s Not Bent, 94–95.
17. Cheryl Lynn Greenberg, “SNCC: Born of the Sit-Ins, Dedicated to Action: Remembrances of Mary Elizabeth King,” from Trinity College SNCC Reunion, April 1988, Civil Rights Movement Veterans, http://www.crmvet.org/nars/maryking.htm, originally published in A Circle of Trust: Remembering SNCC, ed. Cheryl Lynn Greenberg (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998).
18. Branch, Pillar of Fire, 325.
19. Garrow, Bearing the Cross, 375.
20. Oates, Let the Trumpet Sound, 158–59.
21. Branch, Pillar of Fire, 339.
22. King, My Life with Martin Luther King, 204.
23. Memo from the New York FBI Bureau, BU 100–442529, October 16, 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. FBI FOIA file.
24. Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, 471.
25. Branch, At Canaan’s Edge, 678, 744; Garrow, Bearing the Cross, 617.
26. King, My Life with Martin Luther King, 55.
27. Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, 472–73.
28. Garrow, Bearing the Cross, 374.
29. Ibid., 96.
30. Garrow, The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr, 125–26.
31. Young interview.
32. King, My Life, My Love, My Legacy, 259.
33. Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, 471.
34. Martin Luther King Jr., from sermon “Unfulfilled Dreams,” March 3, 1968, quoted in Dyson, I May Not Get There with You, 162.
35. Garrow, Bearing the Cross, 617.
CHAPTER 18: INVADERS’ EXIT
“Why We Must Go to Washington,” transcript of King’s remarks at SCLC retreat, January 16, 1968, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, 10, King Center archives.
1. Garrow, Bearing the Cross, 622.
2. Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, 428.
3. Cotton, If Your Back’s Not Bent, 263.
4. Perrusquia, “Martin Luther King Jr.’s Last 32 Hours.”
5. Cotton, If Your Back’s Not Bent, 264.
6. Hearing transcript, City of Memphis v. Martin Luther King Jr. et al., April 3, 1968, US District Court, Western District of Tennessee, Western Division, 59–61.
7. Young interview.
8. Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, 428
9. Hooks interview.
10. Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, 437.
11. Fairclough, To Redeem the Soul of America, 381.
12. Ibid., 384.
13. Quoted in “As American as Apple Pie, Cherry Pie—and Violence.”
14. Fairclough, To Redeem the Soul of America, 365–66.
15. Ibid., 359–60.
16. “Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, March 30, 1968,” report from the Memphis FBI office to J. Edgar Hoover, MLK Exhibit 457, HSCA, vol. 6, 576.
17. James Lawson, interview transcript, July 8, 1970, tape 244, SSAP, 5.
18. Memo from Memphis FBI office, April 6, 1968, Ernest Withers FOIA File, 2.
19. FBI, Sanitation Workers Strike report, Exhibit 457, 573–76.
20. Marrell McCollough, November 20, 1978, HSCA testimony, vol. 6, 414–15.
21. Robert Blakey statement, November 20, 1978, HSCA testimony, vol. 6, 444.
22. Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, 432.
23. Memo from Memphis FBI office, April 6, 1968, Ernest Withers FOIA File, 8.
CHAPTER 19: MELANCHOLY AFTERNOON
Let the Trumpet Sound, 468.
1. Arkin, Civil Disorders, 43.
2. Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, 437–38.
3. Frank, American Death, 57.
4. King, My Life with Martin Luther King, 292.
5. Powers interview.
6. King, My Life, My Love, My Legacy, 5.
7. Branch, Parting the Waters, 40.
8. King, My Life with Martin Luther King, 76.
9. Branch, At Canaan’s Edge, 761.
10. Powers interview.
11. Martin Luther King Jr., “All Labor Has Dignity,” ed. Michael K. Honey (Boston: Beacon Press, 2011), xxxiii.
12. Logan interview.
13. King, “Showdown for Non-Violence,” 25.
14. Memo from Hosea Williams to Bernard Lafayette, February 11, 1968, item 3837, folder 1, box 198, William Rutherford Files, Southern Christian Leadership Conference Records, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University (hereafter Rutherford Files).
15. Andrew Young, A Way Out of No Way: The Spiritual Memoirs of Andrew W. Young (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1994), 100.
16. “SCLC finances,” FBI memo from Sullivan to Moore, October 28, 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. FOIA file, 00000119.TIF.
17. Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, 189.
18. King, “All Labor Has Dignity,” 153.
19. Memo from New York FBI office to Director, July 1, 1966, presumably based on wiretap of Stanley Levison, Martin Luther King Jr. FOIA file, 100–149194.TIF; memo from New York FBI office, September 21, 1966, quoting New York Times, Martin Luther King Jr. FOIA file, 00000063.TIF.
20. Letter from William Rutherford to Marlon Brando, February 28, 1968, item 3959, box 198, folder 14, Rutherford files.
21. Abernathy testimony, August 14, 1978, HSCA, vol. 1, 28–29.
22. “Re SCLC finances,” February 29, 1968, FBI memo from Moore to Sullivan, Martin Luther King Jr. FOIA File, 00000180.TIF.
23. Fairclough, To Redeem the Soul of America, 369.
24. “Re: SCLC Finances and Poor People’s Campaign,” FBI memo, March 26, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. FOIA file, 00000131–132.TIF.
25. “Why We Must Go to Washington,” transcript of King’s remarks at SCLC retreat, January 16, 1968, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, 16, King Center archives.
26. Oates,
