Hefner's advocation of civil rights
Comedian Dick Gregory revealed in an interview that Hefner provided $25,000 toward a reward that Gregory later credited with helping break one of the civil-rights movement’s most notorious cases: the murder of three young civil-rights workers in Meridian, Mississippi.
Hefner was also an avid supporter of Martin Luther King Jr. and would go on to serve as a significant funder of the Rainbow PUSH coalition helmed by King acolyte Jesse Jackson. (Hefner donated to a number of progressive and legal causes throughout his life, including funding America’s very first rape kit, via his charitable foundation.)
Though many may hear the name Playboy and think of centerfolds (or, let’s be honest, breasts), those of us who are writers, particularly writers of color, think of names like Alex Haley. Long before Roots made Haley a literary superstar, he conducted the very first interview for Playboy magazine with musician Miles Davis.
In the interview, Davis discussed his thoughts on racial inequality, setting the tone for what would become a staple of the magazine: serious people giving serious interviews, on serious subjects, including many prominent people of color. Those people included everyone from athlete and activist Muhammad Ali to Sammy Davis Jr., and Dr. King, who granted the longest print interview of his career to Haley for Playboy. The extraordinary interview from January 1965—given shortly after King received the Nobel Peace Prize—was republished by The Daily Beast three years ago.
Hefner’s son, Cooper, even said the last article ever written by King was published in the magazine.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/hugh-hefners-surprising-civil-rights-legacy
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Response to PragmaticLiberal (Reply #1)
and described them as objects instead of human beings, he was a really great guy. 
Women have often participated in their own objectification, which is what happens when people internalize their culture's opinion of them. Women allow themselves to be objectified because they've been told all their lives, explicitly or implicitly, that they're worthless unless they're sexually attractive to men. Look at the women who voted for Trump. Nobody made them vote for him, but they did it anyhow, knowing he was an admitted sexual predator, that he's cheated on all of his wives and that he's sexually attracted to his own daughter. Some were even wearing "Trump Can Grab My Pussy" t-shirts. Nobody made this woman wear this shirt:
But even though she's not posing nude for Playboy she willingly allowed herself to be objectified in the same basic fashion; she apparently thinks it's fine for a man to grope women, even those who didn't volunteer to be groped. How does a woman come to think so little of herself and of other women?
offensive stuff. EVER! 
