Tristan Justice writes,
The FBI paid tribute to civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday after it spent a decade trying to destroy him.
King, the FBI wrote in a memo highlighted by a new documentary out last fall, was “the most dangerous Negro in America,” and warranted the “use [of] every resource at our disposal to destroy him” after King’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech.
After then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover called King the “most notorious liar in the country,” during a 1964 press conference over King’s criticism, the agency sent a letter to King with tape recordings of the civil rights leader’s promiscuity in a D.C. hotel. The letter said that with a 34-day deadline “before your filthy, abnormal fraudulent self is bared to the nation,” King ought to kill himself to save from embarrassment.
Read more here: https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/17/this-mlk-day-remember-how-the-fbi-targeted-him/
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