January 14, 2021 MLK/FBI documentary focuses on government s efforts to use wiretaps and room bugs to discredit Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
SHOW TRANSCRIPT The FBI says it s clear Martin Luther King Jr. is the most dangerous Negro in America and we have to use every resource at our disposal to destroy him. MLK/FBI revisits the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from a new perspective. It s the first documentary to spotlight the civil rights leader s fraught relationship with the U.S. government and the FBI s targeted surveillance of his life.
Kareema B. Partin, associate director of the Cinematters: NY Social Justice Film Festival: I think every great leader has their flaws, and Martin Luther King Jr. certainly wasn t without his. And so during that time, though, [the FBI] made it a priority to highlight those aspects of him, despite the great work that he was doing.