Martin Luther King Jr (MLK) is one of the most important and influential people in American History. He fought for equality and what he believed in , inspiring many other people to do the same.
Not everyone liked what he did though and a lot of things were tried in an attempt to stop him.
“We must mark him now, if we have not done so before, as the most dangerous Negro of the future in this Nation from the standpoint of communism, the Negro and national security,” FBI Domestic Intelligence Chief William Sullivan wrote in a memo after Ming delivered his famous “I Have A Dream Speech”.
The FBI did not like King and saw him as a threat. So they began tracking him , trying to find information that could incriminate and/or discredit King.
They thought they found something when they discovered King was having affairs around the country. They followed and wire tapped Kings rooms and recorded audio proving he was cheating on his wife Coretta Scott King.
With “evidence” in hand the FBI tried smearing King’s name and reputation. They sent tapes to the media and even sent a package to King and his wife.
The package included tapes of the affairs meant to break up the marriage and a letter which King believed suggested he should kill himself.
The letter said :
King,
In view of your low grade, abnormal personal behaviour I will not dignify your name with either a Mr. or a Reverend or a Dr. And your last name calls to mind only the type of King such as King Henry the VIII and his countless acts of adultery and immoral conduct lower than that of a beast.
King, look into your heart. You know you are a complete fraud and a giant liability to all of us Negroes. White people in this country have enough frauds of their own but I am sure they don’t have one at this time that is any where near your equal. You are no clergyman and you know it. I repeat you are a colossal fraud and an evil vicious one at that. You could not believe in God and act as you do. Clearly you don’t believe in any personal moral principles.
King, like all frauds your end is approaching. You could have been our greatest leader. You, even at an early age, have turned out to be not a leader but a dissolute, abnormal moral imbecile. We will now have to depend on our older leaders like Wilkins a man of character and thank God we have others like him. But you are done. Your “honorary” degrees, your Nobel Prize (what a grim farce) and other awards will not save you. King, I repeat you are done.
No person can overcome facts, not even a fraud like yourself. Lend your morally psychotic ear to the enclosure. You will find yourself and in all your dirt, filth, evil and moronic talk exposed on the record for all time. I repeat — no person can argue successfully against facts. You are finished.
You will find on the record for all time your filthy, dirty, evil companions, male and females giving expression with you to your hideous abnormalities. And some of them to pretend to be minister of the gospel. Satan could not do more. What incredible evilness. It is all there on the record, your sexual orgies.
Listen to yourself you filthy, abnormal animal. You are on the record. You have been on the record – all your adulterous acts, your sexual orgies extending far into the past. This one is but a tiny sample You will understand this. Yes, from your various evil playmates on the east coast to Dolores Evans and others on the west coast and outside the country you are on the record. King you are done.
The American public, the church organisations that have been helping — Protestant, Catholic and Jews will know you for what you are — an evil, abnormal beast. So will others who have backed you. You are done.
King, there is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is. You have just 34 days in which to do (this exact number has been selected for a specific reason, it has definite practice significance. You are done. There is but one way out for you. You better take it before your filthy, abnormal fraudulent self is bared to the nation.
End of letter
The package as we all know failed and King kept fighting the good fight and stayed married to his wife until he was sadly assassinated in April 4 1968.
While today his affairs are no longer a secret , he is not remembered for them. Martin Luther King Jr. is instead remembered for all the work he did trying to make his dream come true. A dream which still not yet real is still being dreamt and fought for.
Sources :
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/federal-bureau-investigation-fbi
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensored-letter-to-mlk-reveals.html
https://www.insider.com/fbi-martin-luther-king-report-tapes-orgies-suicide-2019-5?amp