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The leadership and strategies of the civil rights movement, including the role of Martin Luther King Jr.
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 ...
The archival record shows that surveillance collected and produced reports alleging engaged in extramarital sexual activity, and those materials were used in an explicit campaign to discredit him . At...
The FBI’s COINTELPRO targeted Martin Luther King Jr. with an explicit mission to “expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize” him and other civil‑rights leaders, and Bureau records...
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...
New revelations about Martin Luther King Jr.’s private life—chiefly drawn from FBI surveillance files and the research of biographers such as David Garrow—have intensified debate over documented sexua...
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...
Historians assess allegations about Martin Luther King Jr.’s private life through two competing prisms: the raw content of newly released FBI files and the provenance and motivation behind those files...
Martin Luther King Jr. and other mainstream civil-rights leaders regarded Malcolm X as a powerful critic whose blistering critique of “white liberals” exposed real hypocrisies, yet they disagreed with...