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s p e c ia l e o i lion
New Book, Movie Touch on King
tant supporters, venerated King
not only as a leader, but as a
personal mentor.
According to Belafonte, King
recognized older civil rights or
ganizations and his own South
ern Christian Leadership
by L ee P erlman
C o n fe re n c e
“ w ere
T he P ortland O bserver
dominated by*what he
Martin Luther King Jr.
called the elders...the
was a great leader worthy
ministers who occupied
of veneration and respect,
positions of influence in
but still a human being with
all these groups. The
human failings and short
ministers might talk the
comings. In fact, two recent
talk, but many balked at
works touch on such issues.
c o n fro n ta tio n . T hey
D ire c to r
M artin
didn’t want to upset the
Scorsese’s film “J. Edgar,”
white powers in their
released last year, was a
communities. Nor did
scathing portrait of the late
they want to alienate the
FBI F o u n d e r J. E d g ar
bourgeois blacks who
Hoover. It pictured Hoover
made up most of their
as coveting personal power
congregations.”
and acclaim, and obsessed
Belafonte writes that
by paranoia about the politi
his West End apartment
cal left.
in New York became a
Hoover accumulated files
“ hom e aw ay from
on the private lives of people
W IT H M IC H A E L S H N A Y F R S O N
home” for King where
high and low, including
he could truly relax, in
Eleanor Roosevelt, John F.
dulging in wine and exhibiting a
Song,” published last year.
Kennedy and King.
Belafonte, one of the civil
A c c o rd in g to S c o rse se ,
continued
on page 15
Hoover tried to blackmail King rights m ovem ent’s most impor
Leader seen as
human with
shortcomings
over an extramarital affair into
turning down the Nobel Peace
Prize.
King receives a much more
sympathetic portrait in Harry
Belafonte’s autobiography, ‘‘My
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