“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.

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 ...

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 ...

(RNS)— In 'The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover,' Stanford professor Lerone Martin details how the longtime FBI director shaped the belief in America as a Christian nation.

Civil Liberties An American Gangster at 100: J. Edgar Hoover's Authoritarian Legacy Hoover’s reign at the FBI compromised American civil liberties and turned the FBI into America's secret police.

J. Edgar Hoover held on to power for too long. From 1924 until his death in 1972, during the administrations of eight American presidents, he headed the Bureau of Investigation, later named the ...