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The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

by Leta McCollough Seletzky

Counterpoint ·2023 ·304 pages
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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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"while holding space for her to grapple with Mac's history as a Black man spying on Black Power activists for the police."

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"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 ..."

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"Seletzky's approach is nuanced, weaving her father's story and its many loose threads into her own ..."

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