America's Book Of Secrets Season 4 Episode 4 - FBI vs. MLK

Airdate: 2021-Jun-08

Episode summary:

In 1962, Martin Luther King Jr. criticized Hoover's FBI for refusing to prosecute white supremacists who had burned down black churches in Albany, Georgia. Hoover took King's criticisms in the press as a personal insult. It was an offense that Hoover would never forget and led to him calling King "the most notorious liar in the country." J. Edgar Hoover was not a man to let things go. He ordered "his bureau" to investigate King and soon discovered that the civil rights activist was associated with something he--at the height of the Cold War--considered far more dangerous to the security of the nation than peaceful protests: Communism.

About America's Book Of Secrets series:

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes of the most legendary monuments and powerful organizations in the United States? America