The allegation that King witnessed and encouraged a rape is a serious one, but it’s also important to consider the politics behind the FBI’s surveillance and the agency’s long history of targeting black activism and policing sexuality.
Author Archives: Trevor Griffey
Trevor Griffey is a lecturer of labor studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an historian of the labor and black freedom movements in the 20th century United States and of the FBI's domestic intelligence programs that targeted the black freedom movement from the 1910s-1970s.