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Brando's participation in the African-American civil rights movement actually began well before King's death.

In the early 1960s, he contributed thousands of dollars to both the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ( S. C. L. C.

) and to a scholarship fund established for the children of slain Mississippi N. A. A. C. P.

leader Medgar Evers.

By this time, Brando was already involved in films that carried messages about human rights: Sayonara, which addressed interracial romance, and The Ugly American, depicting the conduct of US officials abroad and its deleterious effect on the citizens of foreign countries.

For a time, he was also donating money to the Black Panther Party and considered himself a friend of founder Bobby Seale.

However, he ended his financial support for the group over his perception of its increasing radicalization, specifically a passage in a Panther pamphlet put out by Eldridge Cleaver advocating indiscriminate violence, " for the Revolution.