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The Awful Grace of God: Religious Terrorism, White Supremacy, and the Unsolved Murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The Awful Grace of God chronicles a multi-year effort to kill Martin Luther King Jr. by a group of the nation’s most violent right-wing extremists. Impeccably researched and thoroughly documented, this examines figures like Sam Bowers, head of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi, responsible for more than three hundred separate acts of violence in Mississi
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Hardcover, 400 pages
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March 27th 2012
by Counterpoint
(first published March 1st 2012)
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The assassination of Martin Luther King, over four decades after the event, remains a tragedy clouded in many facets of mystery. These dark clouds are what precipitated the H.S.C.A. to re-examine the case back in the 1970's and created further pursuit with the King family civil action against Lloyd Jowers in 1999.
King's murder has continually generated theories and revelations of conspiracy and cover-up, as well as the simplistic Ray/Bridgeman/Sneyd/Galt guilty accounts. Investigations by resear ...more
King's murder has continually generated theories and revelations of conspiracy and cover-up, as well as the simplistic Ray/Bridgeman/Sneyd/Galt guilty accounts. Investigations by resear ...more
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Sadly enough, a pivotal moment of American History currently runs the risk of being self-servingly distorted. And I use the modifier “sadly” because, in the process, the general public suffers the potential to be misinformed, thus misled. However, I would like to stress that not all will be misled; rather, there are some who know precisely what is taking place . . . better yet, what already has taken place!
Specifically, I’m referring to the writing duo of Stuart Wexler and Larry Hancock and th ...more
Whether or not you believe Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered by James Earl Ray, acting alone, or was murdered by individuals conspiring to do so, this book is a fascinating and informative read. It details many of the hate groups active in the 1960s in the United States, their activities, and their interactions with one another.
One of the fascinating and totally abhorrent truisms expressed in this book is the number of Christian pastors who are openly segregationist, at best, and haters o
Have I mentioned how much I despise racism?
The real story of all that were involved in the assassination of MLK will probably never be known.
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