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I'm an MLK scholar – and I'll never be able to view King in the same light

  • Written by Jason Miller, Professor of English, North Carolina State University
According to FBI memos, King witnessed and encouraged a rape in a hotel room.AP Photo

David Garrow, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Martin Luther King Jr., has unearthed information that may forever change King’s legacy.

In an 8,000-word article published in the British periodical Standpoint Magazine on May 30, Garrow details the...

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