After reviewing the slide show describing dorothy parker’s involvement with the civil rights movement, write an essay that explains why you think she bequeathed her literary estate to martin luther king, jr. despite the fact they never met. use additional sources to support the claims in your essay.

Dorothy Parker was a writer, a civil rights activist and journalist. She worked for famous magazines such as Vogue and Vanity Fair and she worked as a book reviewer for New Yorker Magazine. It during the 1930s and 1940s that she became a vocal advocate of the civil rights movement. Because of her constant criticism of authority figures, she was listed as a Communist, the FBI had a thousand-page dossier of her because of this. She never met Martin Luther King Jr, she died less than one year before Martin’s assassination and left no heirs. But because of the profound admiration she held for Martin Luther King Jr she bequeathed her estate to him, she also stated that if he was murdered - and he was - her estate would be passed to the NAACP.