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Finally, in 2010, Kentucky State Sen. Georgia Davis Powers recounted her intimate relationship with King in her book “I Shared the Dream.”

But what has just emerged takes things to a whole new level: It now seems that King failed to stop a rape.

The memos show that agents knew that King and a group including Baltimore Pastor Logan Kearse were going to be staying at the Willard Hotel in January 1964 days before he ever arrived.

He supported the idea of fighting for the impoverished people of the country, but he wasn’t sure of the timing and worried it could lead to violence in already struggling communities. Will statues come down, or will they remain – and give fodder to those who justify keeping Confederate monuments?

King espoused nonviolence.

It appears that the two were romantically involved.

Many of these transcripts were based on audiotapes that are still sealed under a court order.

Garrow had taken his findings to other outlets, but each decided against publishing them. But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King Jr. said, ’Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’ ”

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Memos detail a rape

During FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s 48-year tenure, the agency greatly expanded the scope of its surveillance activities – often at the behest of sitting presidents.

That’s when the FBI’s full audiotapes, photographs and film footage of King will be unsealed per a 1977 court order.

Some might doubt the FBI’s trustworthiness given the agency’s historic treatment of black activists. He voiced his opinions publicly, leading to King harboring feelings of betrayal.

Rustin was, once again, ousted from King’s planning process.

Garrow had outlined several of King’s marital infelicities in his 1986 biography of King. Randolph, a respected figure in the movement, wouldn’t garner opposition from others.

“But King and Lewis also knew that if Randolph became the official director of the march, he would appoint Bayard as his deputy,” says Long. FBI surveillance of King began with the goal of uncovering the relationship of King and his closest advisers, like Stanley Levison, with communists.

After his death, it eventually emerged that he was a womanizer. As Garrow explains in his article:

“Without question [the agents] had both the microphone-transmitted tape-recording and a subsequent full transcript at hand while they were annotating their existing typescript; in 1977 Justice Department investigators would publicly attest to how their own review of both the tapes and the transcripts showed them to be genuine and accurate.

But he often spared the names of the women involved to protect their identities. Virginia

A nation divided by the definition of marriage: It’s an issue the LGBT community still grapples with six months after Obergefell v. Garrow has the same reputation among historians as Bob Woodward has among journalists – that is to say, I have no reason to doubt Garrow’s intentions or the accuracy of his article.

King’s sexual exploits long known

Soon after King’s death, several members of his inner circle, including Ralph Abernathy, started publicly discussing King’s philandering.

At the time, many justified his behavior by saying it was no different from the biblical David writing his psalms by day, only to be relieved at night by his concubines.

Initially sealed by court order until 2027, the documents ended up being made available in recent months through the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992.

The most damaging memos describe King witnessing a rape in a hotel room. And if scholarship and true biographical research matters at all, one thing is clear: These FBI memos may have forever damaged King’s legacy.