‘The most dangerous Negro’: 3 essential reads on the FBI’s assessment of MLK’s radical views and allies

Source Chicago Defender
Original Load Date Jan. 11, 2026, 4 p.m.
Last Updated Jan. 11, 2026, 4 p.m.
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![][1] # Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. relaxes at home in May 1956 in Montgomery, Alabama. [Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images][2] Howard Manly, _[The Conversation][3]_ Left out of [GOP debates][4] about “the weaponization” of the federal government is the use of the FBI to spy on civil rights lea...