J. Edgar Hoover had black ancestors

Seán Mac Mathúna

A pannaus has done excellent research himself, which along with McGhee, have also confirmed that there are substantial discrepancies concerning Hoover’s early biography. He observes how:

Strikingly, there does not appear to be {any} contemporaneous record of Edgar’s birth in Washington.

Hoover’s own autobiographical account – on which virtually all biographers have relied – states that he was born January 1, 1895, at his parents’ home on Seward Square, in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C., with a physician, Dr. Mallan, in attendance.

However, despite the fact that it was legally required to report a birth to the District of Columbia Health Department, and that this had been done for the first two children born in the family (Dickerson, Jr. and Lillian), there was no certificate of birth filed for Edgar by Dr. Mallan.

The entry for John Edgar Hoover in the Washington D.C. index of births was clearly added at a much later date, and the certificate number contains the suffix “D” – signifying a delayed filing.

Thus Spannaus obtained a certified copy of Edgar’s actual birth certificate – which was not filed until 1938 , when Hoover was 43 years old!

The verification of birth is provided by an affidavit executed by Edgar’s older brother Dickerson N. Hoover, Jr., who states that he was present when Edgar was born, and that he himself was 15 years old at the time.

Oddly, Dickerson’s affidavit does not mention a doctor being present, in contrast to Edgar’s own account.

He found out that, curiously, Hoover had never applied for a birth certificate until after his mother’s death in February 1938.

It seems obvious that his mother Annie Hoover – if she in fact was his mother – would have been by far the best witness, rather than a 15-year-old boy.

The writer Anthony Summers, described Hoover as “the offspring of a disturbed father and an ambitious mother.”

Apparently the relationship to his father, Dickerson Naylor Hoover, was virtually non-existent.

He was never known to have ever spoken about his father even to his closest friends. His relationship with his mother however, was one of extreme dependency.

As a child, he was described as “high-strung”, “sickly”, and even “excessively fearful” by relatives. He was said to have a terror of separation from his mother, whom he lived with until her death in 1938. As Spannaus notes:

“Of course, were it the case that Edgar had already been separated from his real mother at an early age, and Annie Hoover was actually his adoptive or surrogate mother, this psychological profile would be entirely consistent with such a scenario”

Spannaus also found indications that his Dickerson and Naylor ancestors (through Hoover’s paternal grandmother) were involved in a post-Civil War “underground railroad” which was used to assist light-skinned blacks to make the transition from black society to white society.

(An academic study cited in McGhee’s book, reports that more than three-quarters of African-Americans have some white ancestry, and that at least 23% of white Americans have an African-American element in their background.)

Hoover’s obsession with fighting those who were struggling for black liberation from what was a state of apartheid in the USA up until the 1960’s is well-known.

For example, in 1956, in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s decision to end segregation of black and white children in schools, Hoover fought with Attorney General Brownell over his proposals for new civil rights laws and enforcement provisions.

Hoover declared that “the specter of racial intermarriage” was behind the tensions over “mixed schooling,” and he on one hand attacked the civil rights organizations, while defending and praising the racist and Ku Klux Klan supporting White Citizens Councils in the South.

It was also in 1956 that Hoover launched the FBI’s COINTELPRO (Counter-Intelligence Programme) which targeted civil rights groups and leaders, among others.

Hoover’s FBI was literally an unofficial extension of the illegal racist groups that were burning down Black churches in the South and lynching Black people –

At the time of Hoover’s death in 1972, blacks still constituted less than 1% of FBI special agents.

In the early 1960s, one FBI agent reported that:

“In about 90% of the situations in which Bureau personnel referred to Negroes, the word ‘Nigger’ was used and always in a very derogatory manner.” (Richard Gid Powers, Secrecy and Power: The Life of J. Edgar Hoover, 1987, p. 367).

While at George Washington University in 1917, Hoover had became active in what is politely called the “Southern Fraternity,” the Kappa Alpha Order –

According to Spannaus others have likened it to the “college auxiliary of the Ku Klux Klan.”

His “official” mother, Annie Hoover was the honorary “housemother” for Kappa Alpha at George Washington University, and Hoover remained active in it for the rest of his life.

Many of his closest associates at the FBI were also Kappa Alpha members.

Ironically, Hoover’s remarkable career path would undoubtedly never have been possible, had it been known to have had black ancestry in his family background.

In the decade of his birth, so-called Jim Crow laws were re-instituted through the South.

Under the infamous Democratic Presidency of Woodrow Wilson (when Hoover began his career in the Justice Department), segregation was reinstituted throughout the Federal civil service, which had been exempted from Jim Crow laws.

And under the prevailing “one drop” rule, any amount of black blood or ancestry would exclude a person from most positions or careers – and certainly from high government positions.

Hoover had first waged a campaign against Marcus Garvey and the black nationalist movement from 1919 to 1923.

He launched the infamous campaign to destroy Dr. Martin Luther King when in 1957, Hoover ordered the FBI to monitor King and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference, when it began a campaign to register eligible black voters in the racist South.

Throughout his life in the 1960’s before he was murdered by persons unknown suspected of working for the US government, the FBI ruthlessly targeted King .

Thus, it is no surprise that when the news came through over the radio that King had been killed shot in Memphis on April 4th, 1968 there were jubilant cries of “They got the SOB!” that reverberated through the Atlanta FBI office.

One former FBI agent recalled another agent shouting “ We finally got the son of a bitch !” (Curt Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets, 1991, p. 606; Anthony Summers, Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, 1993, p. 364).

Hoover’s FBI also waged an total war against other Black liberation figures such as Malcolm X and the Black Panthers – 38 of whom were killed in suspicious circumstances.

(This picture is not part of the original article)

It is clear that McGhee’s book has contributed substantially to understanding the complex figure of J. Edgar Hoover –

We can only wait and wonder now if the FBI will change it’s official history to reflect a more accurate picture of his life and his time as the head of FBI when it ruthlessly attempted to crush the black liberation struggle.

He is certainly a person who does not deserve to have public buildings and institutions named him.

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During the 1940s, the blonde hair, blue eyes, African American leader of the NAACP; Walter White wrote:

“Every year, thousands of light skinned Negroes “cross over” and live their lives as white people.”

I am sure that the majority of these people who “Crossed Over,” never told their spouses or children, that they were of African descent.

In fact many of these ‘crossed over white’s’ children, became more racist against people of African descent than other Caucasians.

The reason they became more racists was because these “Cross Overs” fathers and mothers; made sure that they didn’t do or say anything, that would make other Caucasians suspect that they were of African descent.

They made sure that they didn’t listen to music by African Americans; that they didn’t eat food that was stereotyped as “Negro food” (watermelon, fried chicken etc.); that they didn’t read Negro newspapers or go to movies with African American actors.

This rigid pattern against doing anything that would be perceived as, what people of African descent would do; in time made their offspring develop a dislike for people of African descent and everything considered “black.”

Over the past 40 years since I have lived in the United States of America; I have met many Caucasian racists that I knew were of African descent.

Some of them have even been leaders of local KKK or skinhead groups.

A few years ago I read about a Caucasian racist, who was trying to create an ‘all white’ city.

He found out through a DNA test that he had African ancestry 🙂:)

I would caution any Caucasian who has a deep seated hatred for people of African descent; to question where that hatred came from 🙂

Most likely some of their recent ancestors, were African Americans who were “passing” as ‘whites’ 🙂

As an example was the mulatto, J. Edgar Hoover, the former Director of the FBI.

Hoover, hated African Americans with a passion.

He never wanted any of his associates in the FBI or the government, to suspect that he was mixed race.

So he was extremely biased against his own people.

Many of the present day descendants of these passing white, have now inherited the same problem, that many people of African descent in Europe and the Americas suffer from:

Hatred of their own African ancestry.

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There have been many prominent Caucasian Americans who have had African ancestry.

Even the wife of the Confederate President Jefferson Davis had African ancestry.

Look at this picture of Varina Davis and her husband:

Read the article about Varina Davis at:

Also the mother of Dwight Eisenhower was of mixed race:

And a young Dwight Eisenhower looking very much like a brother:

09 Jun 1911 — Dwight Eisenhower during a visit in Chicago on his way to West Point. — Image by © CORBIS

The above is another picture of President Eisenhower’s mother

Below is a picture of the African American leader of the NAACP during the 1930s into the 1950s. Walter White looks more like a Caucasian than J. Edgar Hoover ever did 🙂

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