David Garrow

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• SOURCE: Intelligencer
  6/30/2019
  

  Two MLK Scholars Discuss Explosive, Disputed FBI Files on the Civil-Rights Icon

  Professor Michael Honey, who teaches civil-rights history at the University of Washington Tacoma, took strong issue with historian and former University of Pittsburgh professor David Garrow’s framing of the newly discovered file.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  June 24, 2019
  

  The civil rights activist so close to Martin Luther King Jr. she was thought of as his ‘other wife’

  by Jason Miller

  Find out revealing details from David Garrow's new article on Martin Luther King Jr. 

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• SOURCE: NY Daily News
  6/12/19
  

  We need to face the whole truth about Martin Luther King, Jr.

  by Jonathon Zimmerman

  The reactions to this latest episode smack of a different kind of conspiracy, which historians should both recognize and resist: the conspiracy of silence.

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• SOURCE: Atlantic Journal-Constitution
  6/7/19
  

  Enhancing the historical record is scholars’ foremost task

  by David Garrow

  David Garrow defends his recent controversial article about Martin Luther King, Jr. 

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  5/30/19
  

  What Are We Supposed to Think of Martin Luther King Jr. Now?

  by Rod Radosh

  Some thought Garrow should keep his discoveries under wraps, but it is the job of the historian to tell the truth. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6/8/19
  

  A historian's claims about Martin Luther King are shocking – and irresponsible

  by Donna Murch

  A recent essay claims the civil rights leader was present during a rape, but the evidence is shaky and there’s reason to be skeptical.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/3/19
  

  A Black Feminist’s Response to Attacks on Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy

  by Barbara Ransby

  We should not become historical peeping Toms by trafficking in what amounts to rumor and innuendo.

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• SOURCE: Politico Magazine
  6/4/19
  

  How to Make Sense of the Shocking New MLK Documents

  by David Greenberg

  A new trove of FBI records has become yet another political weapon in our hyper-partisan age. That doesn’t mean we should ignore it.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/4/19
  

  David Garrow's Martin Luther King Biography Was a Classic. His Latest King Piece Is Causing a Furor.

  David Garrow found F.B.I. documents alleging King stood by during a rape. But some scholars question whether to trust records created as part of a smear campaign.

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• 6/4/19
  

  How Should Historians Respond to David Garrow's Article on Martin Luther King, Jr.?

  by Andrea S. Johnson

  How can and should historians address the history of gender and sexuality when it intersects with the histories of the civil rights movement, gender, American religion, and the development of the surveillance state?

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• SOURCE: Atlantic Journal-Constitution
  5/31/19
  

  Biographer Garrow pens explosive report on Martin Luther King Jr.

  The FBI allegations chronicled by Garrow could trigger a new examination of the civil rights hero’s personal life.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/30/19
  

  J. Edgar Hoover’s revenge: Information the FBI once hoped could destroy Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been declassified

  by Trevor Griffey

  An article just published by the U.K.-based Standpoint Magazine alleges that civil rights icon Martin Luther King witnessed and even celebrated a woman’s rape.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/30/19
  

  ‘Irresponsible’: Historians attack David Garrow’s MLK allegations

  The Pulitzer Prize-winning King biographer says he doesn’t believe his reputation will suffer.

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• SOURCE: cnsnews.com
  5-10-17
  

  Conservatives are praising historians like David Garrow for demythologizing Obama

  They are thrilled with Garrow’s new portrait in "Rising Star." 

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  4-5-17
  

  David Garrow has written a biography of Barack Obama — And it’s full of revelations (he says)

  Garrow berates the media for not digging deeply into Obama’s past. Did you know he wrote a book in law school?