hated dr. martin luther king in particular. he was convinced the entire movement was a communist front manipulated by russia to overthrow the united states of america. david korn at mother jones magazine published a reminder that two days after the march on washington, two days after the i have a dream speech, the fbi circulated a memo summing up their reaction to the event and how they plan to respond to it. tim winer turned this up for his fbi history. the fbi memo two days after the speech said, in the light of king s powerful demogoging speech, we must mark him now, if we have not done so before, as the most dangerous negro of the future in this nation, from the standpoint of communism, the negro and national security. that memo, the most dangerous negro memo was circulated all over washington, capitol hill to
0 protests in baltimore to try to make that theater admit black patrons as early as 1955, it opened in 1950, it was whites only. this was 1955, big interracial groups of students going down to that theater, lining up, trying to get admission into the theater. the early protests never worked. after years of the intermittent protests, in february 1963, a group of local students from morgan college, loyola and johns hopkins, they decided they were going to stop taking no for answer answer and they were going to get this thing done. by this point, other businesses in the downtown, including drug steers, even some other theaters, they were already getting desegregated. but the northwood theater was a holdout. the students and the civil rights activists ramped up their protests that february. they ramped up into a confrontation that looked like baltimore city hall, to trying to figure out what to do. groups of students and protesters picketed. black students, and white students and all sorts
0 out and published an ad calling on dr. martin luther king to stop the protests, to work inside the system and stop organizing these demonstrations. to stop being the outside agitator, he responded with a letter from the birmingham jail which he wrote longhand in the margins of the newspaper in which he was able to read the ad and read the stories of his fellow ministers criticizing his tactics. his arrest was one component of a big activist plan for birmingham that year. birmingham was seen as being among the most impossible places for progress. it was the most stubborn, the most violent, the most rigidly opposed to desegregation. the plan was to push there in one of the worst places notice country. and see what happened. see how they responded to pressure. and after what they thought was a slow start of sit-ins and protests in the first eight days a total of 150 people had been arrested and taken to jail, that sounds like a lot, but for the pens. children, and they held them in jail
that, of course, is now on hold while allen denied doing anything wrong, he is under investigation for potentially inappropriate e-mails he sent to this woman, jill kelley, the tampa socialite triggered the petraeus investigation. we ll get to exactly how in just a moment. the defense department s inspector general is going through e-mails allen and kelley sent to each other. the primary thing is that, you know, she wants her privacy protected. and i think that she s going to probably come out at some point and make a statement. privacy, of course, for all players involved is just a pipe dream at this point. and just how are they connected? it started, of course, with the bombshell on friday, david petraeus resigned from the cia because of an affair with his biographer, and fellow west point grad, paula broadwell. the man who co-wrote the biography with broadwell said he was clueless that there was an affair going on. sure, both of them looked back on what has now tran
for a lot of democratic women. she wanted to hit that theme in a very strong way. the glass ceiling line lives on. it lived on as you say to the point where sarah palin adopted it later. but it lives on to this day. i think she began the process by which when mark talked about barack obama and hillary clinton were enlarged by the fight, the fact it was not inevitable that would be the case for hillary clinton. if she had lapsed into bitterness, decided to fight on to denver, been some way stinting in her support of obama, it could have diminished her. instead she made a wise, and as i said before, gracious choice. wise tactically, strategically, wise in terms of her own future decision to really get behind barack obama and do whatever it was he asked and be as supportive as possible. that was the beginning of her seizing the mantle of self-enlargement in some ways. she ended up being a bigger figure by the end of the campaign than she was when she started. and she was a prett