Sex, Lies and Audiotape
A year before his death, Martin Luther King Jr. called America the "greatest purveyor of violence in the world today." His comments and actions made him the object of a massive, FBI-led audio surveillance program into his sex life. Check out our multimedia assemblage in Uncovered. | entry
An illegal wiretapping operation, critics of a foreign war being branded as fifth columnists, and the media demonizing someone whom they just got through lionizing…nope, not 2006: Martin Luther King Jr. had to face all these issues back in his day, too.
Check out our assemblage of documents, multimedia, speeches and articles that shed light on lesser-known aspects of the MKL story.
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