King Alfred Plan
The "King Alfred Plan" is a fictional
1967 novel
The King Alfred Plan first appeared in Williams' 1967 novel, The Man Who Cried I Am, an account of the life and death of Richard Wright. In the afterword to later editions, Williams compares the King Alfred Plan to intelligence programs devised by J. Edgar Hoover in the 1960s to monitor the movements of black militants.[1]
It also bears similarities to rumors in the early 1950s surrounding the
Cultural dissemination
As a result, word of the King Alfred Plan spread throughout the black community. The truth of its existence was often assumed to be unchallenged., treating it as completely genuine.
In an interview with Jet Williams explained that he developed the idea when thinking about the question "What would any administration do in a situation when a large segment of the population was discontented and tearing down the neighborhood . . . threatening the order and the established regime?"[3]
References
- ^ Campbell, James (September 9, 2004). "Black American in Paris". The Nation. Archived from the original on 2009-02-12. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
- ^ a b Boyd, Herbert. "The man and the plan: conspiracy theories and paranoia in our culture", Black Issues Book Review, March-April 2002.
- ^ "Two Celebrated Authors saying Blacks facing genocide in the United States". Jet Magazine. 14 October 1971. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
External links
- Emre, Merve (December 31, 2017). "How a Fictional Racist Plot Made the Headlines and Revealed an American Truth". The New Yorker. Retrieved August 14, 2018.