Photographs of My Father
LGBTQ+ (biographies), Journaux personnels et mémoires, Biographies, Etats-Unis (histoire)
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Résumé
At the National Council of Churches Robert Spike had organized American churches to support the passage of both the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act to march in Selma and to organize in Mississippi An important… white leader in the black civil rights struggle he helped the LBJ White House pass legislation and write crucial civil rights speeches In the midst of what he described as the dirtiest fight of my life struggling to save a federal Mississippi education program he was viciously murdered in Columbus Ohio The murder was never solved Very little effort went into finding the murderer The Columbus police and the FBI hinted the unsolved murder was connected to Spike s undisclosed gay life During his father s rise in the civil rights movement Paul Spike lived a life typical of a young man in the 1960s finding his way through a labyrinth of booze drugs and girls At Columbia University he was active in the 1968 student rebellion and friends with many SDS radicals That rootless life ended with his father s murder Paul Spike lives in London where he writes about politics literature film and travel for a wide range of newspapers and magazines