Kneeling Man

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 Seletzkys father.Marrell Mac McCollough was a Black man working secretly with the white power structure. To understand this,Leta began looking into her fathers lifehis motivations, his career with the police and the CIA, and the truth behind accusations of his involvement in Kings murder. What would Leta uncover, and did she want to know? How might Macs story change her own feelings about her place in Trumps America?The Kneeling Manis 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 and turns of this one mans life tell the story of twentieth-century Black America.