Civil Rights and Social Control “The American Oligarchy, Civil Rights and the Murder of Martin Luther King”, by Andrew Marshall, describes as the American civil rights movement emerged in the 1950s, the established American oligarchy, in all its various forms and avenues of influence, set in motion simultaneous attempts to control the evolution of the movement, in order to both divide the movement and its leaders against each other, and also to control its direction. The Civil Rights Movement arose as an independent and people-driven movement in a struggle for black rights in America. The idea was to prevent the Civil Rights Movement from remaining an organic people-driven movement and taking its natural course, which falls outside the false …show more content…
Upon the announcement of the verdict, Coretta Scott King, King's widow, said, "There is abundant evidence of a major high level conspiracy in the assassination of my husband, Martin Luther King, Jr.” The Billionaire Oligarchy and the Civil Rights Movement/ Elite Ideology In the 1950s, the Ford Foundation began taking an interest in the Civil Rights movement, and after convening a study on how to improve race relations, the Ford Foundation began giving grants to black colleges to improve the quality of their educational offerings. By 1966, the Civil Rights movement was one of the major areas of Ford Foundation funding. King, who was without a doubt, the leader of the Civil Rights movement, was, in his last year, steering the Civil Rights movement against poverty and empire. This would have been the natural progression of the Civil Rights movement had King lived longer, fighting for the rights of all people around the world and at home, and aiming to unite them all under a common cause of liberation against systemic