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| 231 NOTES Notes Chapter One. Cousin Stanley 1. Leon Schwartz, A Scion of the Times (Altadena: Consortium House, 2010), 301. 2. Communist Party–USA, website statement, http://www.cpusa.org/ the-party/. 3. Ben Peck, “The Stalin-Hitler Pact,” In Defense of Marxism, August 24, 2009, http://www.marxist.com/the-stalin-hitler-pact.htm. The Comintern was created in Moscow in 1919 during the so-called Third International. It was dissolved by Joseph Stalin in 1943, a move that added to the growing hostility toward the Soviets shared by American Marxists such as Stanley Levison. 4. Contained in “Martin Luther King: We Are Not Interested in Being 232| NOTES Integrated into This Value Structure” by writer Raj Patel, in an Internet column dated January 18, 2010, posted on http://rajpatel.org/. Chapter Two. A Walk in the Rose Garden 1. New York office of fbi, from King Papers Collection, archived, Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University (hereafter referred to as “King Papers”). Papers edited by Professor Clayborne Carson. 2. Conversation with Rabbi Joachim Prinz (now deceased), recorded by the author at an American Jewish Congress meeting in 1979. Prinz spoke just prior to Dr. King at the 1963 March on Washington. 3. Several conversations with Reverend Vivian are included in this book, taking place in Memphis, Atlanta, and a number of phone conferences. Vivian, a Birmingham-based preacher, was prominent in the civil rights campaigns, and was famously punched in the face by Sheriff Jim Clark in Selma, Alabama, while trying to help African Americans register to vote. 4. Otherwise unattributed quotations in this text reflect the recollections of Clarence Jones and Leon Schwartz, as well as Eugene Schwartz, members of the Joseph Filner family, Samuel “Billy” Kyles, Harry Belafonte, Maxine Smith, C. T. Vivian, and other eyewitnesses to these events. 5. Letter, King Papers. 6. From conversation with Andrew Young, Memphis, April 2011. Young was lecturing at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law on the occasion of the forty-third anniversary of the assassination of Dr. King. Event sponsored by the National Civil Rights Museum. 7. Andrew Young, An Easy Burden (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2008), 200–201. 8. Telephone conversation with Harry Belafonte, 2012. NOTES| 233 9. Orlando Figes, The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia (London: Picador, 2008), 96. 10. Yaacov Ro’i, Jews and Jewish Life in Russia and the Soviet Union (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 1995), 21. 11. David Garrow, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (New York: William Morrow, 1986), 200. 12. From among several interviews in person with Clarence Jones. Most were held at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University, where Jones is scholar-in-residence. 13. Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963–65 (New York: Touchstone, 1998), 114. 14. From “Famous Leadership Quotes,” The Happy Manager, www.thehappy -manager.com. 15. Gary Thomas, Sacred Influence: How God Uses Wives to Shape the Souls of Their Husbands (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2007), 113. Chapter Three. From Far Rockaway to Montgomery 1. Based on interviews by author with members of the Joseph Filner family, close friends of Beatrice and Stanley Levison. These include former congressman Bob Filner and Levison cousins Eugene and Leon Schwartz. 2. Derived from the files of The Jewish Daily Forward and yearbooks as well as alumni publications of Far Rockaway High School, Queens, New York. 3. Hilene Flanzbuam, ed., Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001), 245–46. 4. Garrow, Bearing the Cross, 66. 5. Letter, King Papers. 6. Author conversation with Reverend Moss, Cleveland, May 2011. 7. Letter archived in the King Papers. 234| NOTES 8. From ongoing e-mail correspondence with Andrew Levison, 2011–13. 9. This and several other points garnered from Federal Bureau of Investigation, Stanley Levison—the FBI Files, 5 vols. (Lexington, KY: Filiquarian Publishing/Qontro, 2009). 10. Transcript files: Matthew Schuerman, ed., WNYC Radio, New York, January 17, 2011, http://www.wnyc.org/story/108985-martin-lutherkings -hidden-friend-and-advisor/. Chapter Four. The Communist 1. W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folks (New York: Bantam Classic, 1989), 30. 2. Niagara Declaration of Principles, 1905. 3. Robert Harvey, A Short History of Communism (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2004), 197. 4. Robert Service, Comrades! A History of World Communism (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007), 144. 5. Notes compiled...
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