The civil rights activist dubbed Dr Martin Luther King’s ‘other wife’

The civil rights leader in his inner circle

17 January 2023 - 15:47 By Jason Miller

In a 2019 article (https://standpointmag.co.uk/issues/june-2019/the-troubling-legacy-of-martin-luther-king/) published in Standpoint Magazine, Pulitzer Prize-winning Martin Luther King Jr. biographer David Garrow detailed new information about King he discovered in FBI documents. The most damaging is that King may have witnessed — and encouraged — a sexual assault at a Washington, D.C. hotel in January 1964...

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