17. As @mcurryfelidae07 reminds me, Hoover belonged to long tradition of linking anti-socialism with support for racial hierarchy.
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18. Hoover's power rested on two pillars: conservative love his anti-communism and the cowardice & complicity of liberal politicians.
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19. FDR bears a large part of the blame for empowering Hoover -- and after him Truman, JFK and LBJ were too scared to challenge.
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20. The anti-communist FBI worked to box in the civil rights movement with daily harassment, spying and blacklist of radical voices.
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21. FBI's harassment of Civil Rights movement is big story. Let's focus in on a detail: the murder of Viola Liuzzo
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22. Viola Liuzzo was shot dead by a Klansman in 1965 After her death FBI spent more time smearing her reputation going after killer.
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23. Liuzzo was a mother of 5, so FBI agents off the record told reporters, why did he abandon kids, was she a good wife and mother?
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24. There's a whole history here that the United States has still not come to terms with. There's still a Hoover Building in Washington DC
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25. Movies like "Mississippi Burning" teach Americans that FBI agents were heroes during Civil Rights Era.
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26. Magazines like National Review supported Hoover during his whole career -- have they ever given serious second thoughts to that?
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27. Wrapping things up, we need to think of American racism as not just Southern but national & institutional with Hoover as major pillar.
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28. As a post-script, I'll add that mythos & jokes surrounding Hoover's sexuality helps hide his true odiousness.
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29. Stories about Hoover's cross-dressing rest on very skaky foundations and are almost certainly not true.
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