Monday, May 20, 2019

When GLR Met MLK: George Lincoln Rockwell & Martin Luther King, Jr.

The below photograph captures the confrontation between George Lincoln Rockwell and Martin Luther King, Jr., on January 18, 1965 in Selma, Alabama. Rockwell challenged King to a public debate, and King accepted, inviting Rockwell to a meeting taking place that night (Rockwell hated the idea of race-mixing and saw King as a Jewish-financed agitator). The debate was later cancelled.

The man behind Rockwell is James Robinson of the "States Rights Party," who was heckling both Rockwell and King. The pin on his lapel bears the lightning bolt insignia of the group. Later that day, Robinson would attack King at the Albert Hotel, leading to the debate's cancellation.

Within three years, Rockwell and King would be assassinated.

(Source: For Race and Nation: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party by William H. Schmaltz)


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