Leta McCollough Seletzky

Writer Leta McCullough Seletzky tells the story of her father, a Black undercover police officer who was pictured kneeling beside Martin Luther King and trying to staunch the blood flow after he had been shot.

Marrell ‘Mac’ McCullough’s job as a Black man working secretly with a white power structure was far from what Seletzky understood of what it meant to be Black in America. So, she set out to find out about her father’s life and motivations and his role with the police and CIA.  Seletzky explains what she uncovered and how the story of her father tells the story of 20th-century Black America.

Seletzsky is an essayist and memoirist. She has written for The Atlantic; The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; and The Washington Post.