Martin Luther King Jr. Was Surveilled by the FBI. Today, Law Enforcement Still Tracks Black Activists
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James Adams, FBI deputy director, on Nov. 19, 1975 said there was no justification for the bureau's extensive campaign to destroy Martin Luther King Jr. as a leader of the civil rights movement.
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