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WASHINGTON D.C. - The Trump administration released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., the Associated Press reports.

What we know:

The release involves an estimated 200,000 pages of records that had been under a court-imposed seal since 1977, when the FBI first gathered the records and turned them over to the National Archives and Records Administration.

King’s family, including his two living children, Martin III and Bernice, were given advance notice of the release and had their own teams review the records ahead of the public disclosure. The family had requested that they see the files first in January .

What they're saying:

In a lengthy statement released Monday, the two living King children called their father’s case a "captivating public

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