It’s True: The FBI Urged Martin Luther King to Commit Suicide « Student Activism

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It’s True: The FBI Urged Martin Luther King to Commit Suicide

by Angus Johnston

Earlier this morning, the UberFacts Twitter account posted the following tweet:

A letter was discovered in which the FBI urged Martin Luther King to commit suicide.
— UberFacts (@UberFacts) October 13, 2012

I learned about it a little while later because of a weird spike in my traffic — though the story is well documented and has appeared in a number of scholarly works it’s not particularly well known, and a post that I wrote about itearlier this year happens to show up near the top of Google’s searches for various phrases relating to it.
Anyway, like I say, it’s true. The FBI, under the direction of J. Edgar Hoover’s top deputy, sent Martin Luther