
Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement

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“Ground View of the New Prison in Philadelphia”, an 1827 illustration of Eastern State Penitentiary completed while it was still under construction
On October 10, 1963, the Department of Justice signed a memo granting the FBI permission to conduct technical, wall-to-wall surveillance on Martin Luther King, Jr. The eloquence and reach of King following the March on Washington had so alarmed the Kennedy administration and the bureau that six weeks later they felt drastic steps had to be taken.
In 1938, Dr. Leopoldo Salazar Viniegra (above), head of the federal drug addiction hospital in Mexico City’s National Psychiatric Hospital, also known as La Castañeda, presented a paper, “The Myth of Marijuana,” that offered a radical path to ending one of Mexico’s first “drug wars.”