Currently reading. I've known much about his life and mission in the many documentaries I've seen about the civil rights movement, but have never taken a deep dive. He was truly an incredible man, and his disciplined commitment to nonviolent opposition is still inspiring. And I know the older I get the less I'm aware of how many more years ago the Jim Crow era was still firmly established in American life. But it still seems like only a short while ago in our nation's history that America was unabashedly shitting all over the Black population, backed by our legal institutions and elected leaders.
The writer doesn't hold back on his extra-marital affairs, which were more numerous than I had understood. And it's amazing how brazen the FBI was at the time in obtaining information on those affairs through extensive wiretapping. It's also a remarkable commentary of that time that the FBI shared with certain media outlets some of those tapes in which King was talking to his mistresses or to other men about his sexual exploits, and nobody in the press wanted to publish them. Today, the media would be blasting that in lightening speed.
I'm about 70% through, and I'm surprised MLK made it to 1968.