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American civil rights activist and minister (1926–1990)
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 ...
The available reporting shows multiple sources alleging that Martin Luther King Jr. engaged in extramarital sexual relationships, with much of the documentary “evidence” coming from FBI wiretaps and r...
New reporting and declassified files document that Martin Luther King Jr. engaged in extramarital sexual relationships and that the FBI collected and publicized material about those relationships as p...
Reporting and declassified records show that surveillance in the 1960s collected material about ’s extramarital sexual activity, including allegations of group sex and other sexual misconduct recorded...
1989 autobiography alleges that engaged in extramarital sexual activity on the night of April 3–4, 1968, the night before his assassination—specifically that King spent parts of that night alone with ...