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Pittsburgh Historian Uncovers Explosive Allegations About MLK, Jr.;​




Documents pertaining to FBI surveillance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. include deeply disturbing and potentially explosive allegations about the slain civil-rights leaders' extramarital sexual activities, and that he was present in a hotel room during an alleged rape.

The new information was unearthed by David J. Garrow, the Pittsburgh-based author and historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for biography for his 1986 book “Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.”





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Newly released documents pertaining to FBI surveillance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., include deeply disturbing and potentially explosive allegations…
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On Jan. 5, 1964, at the Willard Hotel, in Washington, D.C., according to a text summary of surveillance audio tapes found in the files of FBI assistant director William C. Sullivan – a top deputy to J. Edgar Hoover – Martin Luther King, Jr. and a party of friends checked into a hotel room.

The room was bugged, with two FBI agents listening in. Then, the document says, King’s friend, a fellow Baptist minister, forcibly raped a woman who was one of the other minister’s parishioners.

The summary adds that “King looked on, laughed and offered advice” during the rape.

No one can hear the actual audiotapes or read the FBI’s transcripts: Both are sealed by court order until 2027. But if Felonious Trump orders them released, it would change our perception of King, who was proclaimed a social-justice hero, one with his own national holiday.

Author and Yale University professor Beverly Gage, who is writing a book on Hoover, has read Garrow’s Standpoint article and calls it “remarkable research.” She adds that the hotel-room rape was the “most explosive” component.

“We’re certainly having a big cultural conversation about the relationship between public lives and private lives, the relationship between sexual violence and sexual transgressions, and other aspects of people’s lives and accomplishments,” says Gage. “I think it’s going to be particularly intense in the case of Martin Luther King, and I do think that it will reshape his legacy in some way.”

The King estate did not return messages seeking comment.
 
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