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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