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The FBI's surveillance of Martin Luther King, including the use of COINTELPRO tactics to discredit him.
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...
’s 2019 essay mining newly released files to make explosive allegations about provoked a sharp split among historians: many condemned his treatment of heavily tainted FBI material as credulous and irr...
The FBI files portray Martin Luther King Jr. as a serial adulterer and catalogue a range of sexual allegations — from numerous affairs to salacious episodes recorded in hotel rooms — based on the Bure...
Martin Luther King Jr. scholars treat FBI files as indispensable but compromised primary sources: they reveal extensive surveillance and a “rich human story,” yet must be read skeptically because the ...
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...
David Garrow’s recent excavations of FBI files foreground explicit allegations of dozens of extramarital encounters and an especially explosive charge about King’s presence at a 1964 sexual assault, p...