All hail the plastic "messiah," the unreverend Michael King, Jr.!
"Martin and I were away more often than we were at home; and while this was no excuse for extramarital relations, it was a reason. Some men are better able to bear such deprivations than others, though all of us in SCLC headquarters had our weak moments. We all understood and believed in the biblical prohibition against sex outside of marriage. It was just that he had a particularly difficult time with that temptation."
-- Ralph David Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down
Powers also helped lead civil rights marches across the South, becoming a close confidant of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. In 1989, the year after she retired from the Senate, a book by King's top lieutenant, Ralph David Abernathy, disclosed that Powers and King had also been lovers. Her secret exposed, Powers told her version of the story in a 1995 autobiography, I Shared The Dream.
"Things happen like that," she said when I asked her about her relationship with King. "You're working together and you admire them and they like you and things happen. That's life."
https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/...e44470470.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41871956
Dr King was surrounded by advisers with strong links to the Communist Party USA
His statements were always subject to approval by the alleged communist sympathisers
He was a secret supporter of communism, "a whole-hearted Marxist"
His organisation, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, set up a "tax dodge" to raise funds for its activities
Dr King took part in "drunken sex orgies" and coerced young women to participate
He had love affairs with at least four women, including folk singer Joan Baez
(full disclosure: disciples of the "reverend" (sic) King assert the FBI allegations are all false, made up by "racist" agents - he dindu nuffin')