It was said that FBI agents spotted white Communists by their ease and politeness around Negroes, or by the simple fact that they socialized with Negroes at all. To Negroes, this was all part of heaven’s mystery—why only the Communists? Even King’s most conservative teachers had drilled into him the minutiae of Communist history on the color question—that Stalin, for instance, had written into the Soviet Constitution a provision that discrimination by color was a national crime. “I think there can be no doubt about it that the appeal of Communism to the Eastern nations today can be traceable
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