The anti-MLK letters revealed in 200,000 unseen documents

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1) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.Arguably the most famous African-American of all time and one of the most influential Americans of any race, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is synonymous with the Civil Rights Movement for many. Rising to prominence during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a pivotal blow against segregation, King, a fiery orator, inspired a nation with his “I Have a Dream” speech delivered during 1963’s historic March on Washington, one of the Lincoln Memorial’s largest.Recognized as an international human rights leader, King received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, becoming its youngest recipient. His April 4, 1968 assassination in Memphis, where he traveled to support the Memphis Sanitation Strike, shook the nation, with many cities erupting in violence.Unwilling to let her husband’s legacy die, Coretta Scott King immediately created the King Center near her husband’s Atlanta birth home and campaigned tirelessly for decades for a national holiday in his honor.(AP Photo)

From the Daily Mail: As the nation commemorated the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, the King Center in Atlanta, Georgia, marked the occasion by posting 200,000 never-before-seen documents by or about the slain civil rights leader on its website.

The documents cover many aspects of his struggle – and not all of them are complimentary.

Tbe archives include hate mail to King. Some criticise him for being a communist, while others rail against all African-Americans, describing them as ‘savages.’

One letter suggests that he gives back the Nobel Peace Prize because of the civil unrest he has caused.

An anonymous critic also says he was directly responsible for the death of a 16-year-old in a riot. It says: ‘You did murder that child, didn’t you Martin? Can you sleep at night while you are listening to our Lord ask you that question? … No thank you – you murderer.

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