“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 ...

"When FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was asked what was the single greatest threat to the USA, he answered 'Negro unity.' Take a moment to let that sink in," says the text of a June 16 Facebook post .

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.

J. Edgar Hoover held on to power for too long. From 1924 until his death in 1972, ... Gage downplays the violence of the Black Panthers and the racism of the Nation of Islam.

For nearly half a century, J. Edgar Hoover presided over the FBI with an iron fist. His career began with a wave of anti-communist raids in 1919. It ended during the presidency of his friend ...

J. Edgar Hoover (center), director of the FBI, stands by a plaque dedicating a large stained-glass window to him at Capitol Hill Methodist Church, which today is called Capitol Hill United ...

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 ...

J. Edgar Hoover held the FBI in an iron grip during nearly 50 years as its director. ... he had always been conducting surveillance of black leaders, civil rights leaders. He believed that King, ...

“There is only one thing left for you to do…You know what it is.” William Sullivan, an FBI agent working for the infamous J. Edgar Hoover, wrote these words in a letter to Dr. Martin Luther ...

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 ...

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) Dr. Lerone A. Martin is Martin Luther King, Jr ...