“Edgar Hoover was a black man passing for white,” says Millie McGhee, an African-American living in Southern Maryland, who has written two books Secrets Uncovered: J.Edgar Hoover-The Relative ...

Claims that FBI Direction J. Edgar Hoover said "negro unity" was the biggest national threat are false.

J. Edgar Hoover, the deceased and despised director of the FBI who is considered the very personification of evil by civil rights-era activists, was said have had two obsessions during his 47-year ...

In 1968, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said the Black Panther Party "without question, represents the greatest threat to the internal security of the country." And with that declaration he used ...

The Black Panther party represents the greatest threat among the black extremist groups to the internal security of the United States, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover said today.

Producing or directing, he made more than 50 films over 50 years, including a series on the English language and an exploration of J. Edgar Hoover’s secret life. By Clay Risen Kash Patel’s ...

One morning in the fall of 1971, President Richard Nixon set out to fire J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the F.B.I., who had ruled over the agency like a potentate since 1924. The two men were ...

A stained-glass window dedicated to the Christian virtues of FBI founder J. Edgar Hoover will be rechristened as a reminder of “past and current racial oppression” during a Capitol Hill ...

Books | NPR Biography traces public support for J. Edgar Hoover in most of his 48 years in power G-Man by Yale historian Beverly Gage examines how Hoover held onto power and describes his ...

How J. Edgar Hoover Went From Hero to Villain Before his abuses of power were exposed, he was celebrated as a scourge of Nazis, Communists, and subversives.

J. Edgar Hoover held the FBI in an iron grip during nearly 50 years as its director. Once popular, Hoover left behind a troubling legacy. Yale historian Beverly Gage examines his dominance over ...

J. Edgar Hoover met with Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964. An upcoming book by Lerone A. Martin shares details on how this encounter went (DMN Archive) ...