While he was alive, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wasn’t seen as the sanitized, “safe” civil rights hero like he is today. #ReclaimMLK 
In fact, he was viewed as so radical that the FBI had him under close surveillance and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover dubbed him the “most dangerous Negro in America.” #ReclaimMLK
A Harris Poll taken 2 years before #MLK’s assassination showed he had only a 27% favorable rating among whites at the time. King’s direct & unmasked message of an America refusing to live up to her promises of equality and justice for all agitated the majority of white Americans.
We take today to honor, to resurrect and to reclaim the TRUE Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the agitator, the unflinching truth-teller and the powerful leader, who terrified racists and the FBI alike with his calls for the most American ideals of equality and justice. #ReclaimMLK
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