In the famous photograph of Martin Luther King Jr.-s assassination, one man kneels beside him, trying to staunch the blood: an undercover Memphis police officer embedded with the Invaders, a militant Black group in talks with King. This spy, the kneeling man, was Leta McCollough Seletzky-s father.
Marrell -Mac- McCollough was a Black man working secretly with the white power structure. To understand this, Leta began looking into her father-s life-his motivations, his career with the police and the CIA, and the truth behind accusations of his involvement in King-s murder. What would Leta uncover, and did she want to know? How might Mac-s story change her own feelings about her place in Trump-s America?
The Kneeling Man is a compelling personal and political tale of alienation and ambivalence; struggle, self-definition and compromised choices. Set vividly in the sharecropper South, on the streets of Memphis and in the halls of power, the twists
