'The most dangerous Negro': 3 essential reads on the FBI's assessment of MLK's radical views and allies
- Written by Howard Manly, Race + Equity Editor, The Conversation US
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. relaxes at home in May 1956 in Montgomery, Alabama.Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesLeft out of GOP debates about “the weaponization” of the federal government is the use of the FBI to spy on civil rights leaders for most of the 20th century.
Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the targets.
As secret FBI...





