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The FBI's surveillance on Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s under pretexts including suspected communist influence.
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...
remains an iconic figure for civil rights, but his legacy contains documented and contested negative elements: credible archival evidence of extramarital sexual activity and questionable behavior reve...
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...
The core portion of the ’s surveillance materials on —including audio wiretap recordings, transcripts of those recordings and related FBI surveillance documents—were placed under a federal sealing ord...
Publicly released material now includes construction-level documents, a site plan, contractor emails referring to “tunnels” and a large cache of forensic and photographic evidence seized by investigat...
The primary evidence cited for alleged extramarital affairs comes from surveillance — wiretaps, hotel-room bugs and informant reports — that the Bureau compiled during and later released in redacted f...
The FBI files on Martin Luther King Jr. provide historians with some of the most meticulously recorded primary material about King’s movements, communications and the Bureau’s own counterintelligence ...
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...