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The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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A memoir and exploration of the recent past attempting to understand the author's complex father, Marrell (Mac) McCollough, a member of the Black Power movement and an undercover agent for the Memphis Police Department who later went on to work for the CIA, immortalized as one of the figures huddled around Dr. King in the photo of his assassination at the Lorraine Motel.
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"Students of 1960s anti-war movements and civil rights history will find useful information in this revealing footnote."
"While Seletzky keeps the focus on her father's story, his experiences and observations make intriguing contributions to the MLK assassination canon."
"Mac's conflicting roles as an undercover police officer and a Black man moved by King's cries for racial progress are at the forefront of Seletzky's narrative ..."
"Seletzky and her father have discussed his experiences ..."
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