The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
Criticism of MLK's MethodsThe Author of this letter is very critical of Dr. King and accuses him of hating the white race and requests he return the Nobel Peace Prize. |
Letter from J. V. Jones to MLKJ.V. Jones questions whether Dr. King's position on the Vietnam war is helping the black race because he believes otherwise. Jones also encloses a Walter Winchell article from the Los Angeles Harold Examiner. |
Walter Winchell: American Talking BackIn this article, Walter Winchell provides excerpts of news articles and adds his own commentary to each. Following an excerpt about Dr. King's having a conference to coordinate civil disobedience activities, Winchell urges his leaders to write to Dr. King and "tell him to stop posing as a Man of Peace and 'fess up that his big "act" is causing more trouble than Ho Chi Mihn." Other recipients of Winchell's attention in this column include President Lyndon B. Johnson. |
Walter Winchell: Man Doing A ColumnIn part of this edition of his syndicated gossip column, Walter Winchell briefly criticizes SNCC in the irreverent style for which he was known. |