Robert J. Brown Worked With Both MLK and Nixon. Here’s What He Says Went on Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement

The civil rights power broker talks about his new memoir and working with Martin Luther King Jr. and Richard Nixon.

In your new book, You Can't Go Wrong Doing Right, you describe being a liaison between business and the civil rights movement in the '60s. How did you persuade executives to come to the table?

No businesses can be successful in the kind of environment where people are burning down places. Everybody is a potential customer, and it's all about the money.

The civil rights power broker talks about his new memoir and working with Martin Luther King Jr. and Richard Nixon. In your new book, You Can't Go Wrong Doing Right, you describe being a liaison between business and the civil rights movement in the '60s. How did you persuade executives to come to the table? No businesses can be successful in the kind of environment where people are burning down places. Everybody is a potential customer, and it's all about the money.