News flash: J. Edgar Hoover was BLACK.
Watch the news during the next four weeks -- J. Edgar Hoover, legendary for his repression of civil rights -- was "passing." Today the definitive record was located. J. Edgar Hoover's father, Dickerson Naylor Hoover, was fathered by John T. Hoover, who was fathered by William and Elizabeth Hoover -- both clearly identified as "colored." William Hoover, John T. Hoover, and Dickerson Hoover all lived together in a segregated black neighborhood of Washington D.C. And there's more to come. Watch for the new book, "Secrets Unveiled: J. Edgar Hoover -- Passing for White? (June 2000) Author Millie McGhee, a well known educator and a descendant of slaves, investigated three centuries of oral family history to document what the family knew to be true. Thought you'd like to know.