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American author, activist, and civil rights leader; wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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...
Reporting and declassified FBI files show long‑standing allegations that Martin Luther King Jr. engaged in multiple extramarital sexual relationships and that the FBI collected and publicized sexually...
Coretta Scott King did publicly respond to rumors about Martin Luther King Jr.’s alleged infidelities, generally downplaying them and expressing faith in her marriage even when FBI surveillance materi...
Coretta Scott King did not publicly mount a detailed rebuttal to allegations that Martin Luther King Jr. was unfaithful or academically dishonest; available contemporary reporting and later biographie...
Martin Luther King Jr.’s relationships with women in the Civil Rights Movement were . Women such as Coretta Scott King, Dorothy Height, Ella Baker, Septima Clark, and Dorothy Cotton were indispensable...
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...
Martin Luther King Jr. was the subject of extensive FBI surveillance in which agents recorded or reported alleged , and the FBI sought to use that material to discredit him and the civil rights moveme...
Allegations of Martin Luther King Jr.’s infidelity were used by the FBI as part of a deliberate campaign to discredit him, and those files later fueled public controversy—but during the height of the ...
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....
The set of documents you provided does not contain any substantive evidence about how Coretta Scott King responded to allegations of her husband’s infidelity. Multiple summaries and metadata point to ...
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...
Coretta Scott King publicly defended Martin Luther King Jr. against allegations of infidelity, repeatedly emphasizing her faith in their marriage and prioritizing the civil-rights work they shared, wh...
The overlap between Jack Boozer’s 1952 dissertation and Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1955 dissertation consists of multiple near‑verbatim sentences and longer passages dealing with Paul Tillich’s theology...
Ralph Abernathy’s 1989 memoir, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, which detailed Martin Luther King Jr.’s alleged extramarital affairs, provoked sharp public condemnation from civil‑rights leaders and ...
Scholars who edited and reviewed Martin Luther King Jr.’s papers found multiple instances of unattributed borrowing across his student work — including significant passages in his 1955 doctoral disser...
Between 1963 and 1965 Martin Luther King Jr.’s documented public responses to Malcolm X ranged from sharp critique of his endorsement of violence to restrained personal respect and even gestures of co...
The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) sustained a coordinated, multi-year strategy from 1968 to 1983 that combined repeated federal legislation, grassroots signature drives and public celebrity campaig...
The King family’s response to allegations that Martin Luther King Jr. engaged in extramarital affairs has been chiefly to contextualize and rebut them as part of an FBI campaign to discredit him while...
Martin Luther King Jr.’s intimate and professional relationships—most notably with his wife Coretta Scott King, close advisers and colleagues like Dorothy Cotton, and intellectual influences such as T...