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Available reporting shows the FBI surveilled Martin Luther King Jr. from the late 1950s into the 1960s and collected tapes and memos that allege he had multiple extramarital sexual relationships; jour...
Claims that Martin Luther King Jr. fathered children out of wedlock drew a public rebuttal from his daughter Bernice King in 2017 after a released FBI document was interpreted that way; mainstream bio...
A long-standing judicial order sealed a body of FBI audio tapes and related materials about Martin Luther King Jr. for 50 years and placed them in the National Archives, but recent executive actions a...
The FBI files contain extensive surveillance material — wiretap transcripts, memos and an anonymous “blackmail” package — that the bureau compiled and circulated in efforts to document and exploit Mar...
Coretta Scott King publicly and privately resisted the FBI’s campaign to define her husband by lurid surveillance reports, consistently defending Martin Luther King Jr.’s public work while acknowledgi...
Coretta Scott King publicly and persistently criticized the Civil Rights Movement’s sexism and insisted that women’s work be recognized, positioning herself as both a partner to Martin Luther King Jr....
Martin Luther King Jr.’s international friendships and contacts shaped his civil‑rights philosophy by introducing nonviolence as a global practice, widening his critique from segregation to war and po...
Papers Project has produced a multi-volume, annotated of King's writings and speeches that presents transcriptions, contextual essays, and editorial notes intended to trace sources and editorial prove...
A substantial body of FBI material documenting surveillance and internal allegations about Martin Luther King Jr.’s personal life exists in multiple agency collections and related compilations; the co...
Recent releases of FBI and assassination-related files have reignited debate about Martin Luther King Jr.’s personal conduct and the FBI’s longtime efforts to discredit him; the King family and The Ki...