John Edgar Hoover was born in Washington ... They used this to threaten King, telling him, in an anonymous letter "there is only one way out for you". King was assassinated in Memphis in 1968.

J. Edgar Hoover allegedly targeted Garvey over a century ago. A group of 21 House Democrats signed a letter urging the president to exonerate former civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, according to ...

Edgar Hoover's collection ... which Hoover's FBI procured its information as "Gestapo-ish" and wrote outraged letters protesting the investigations of her friends and even of her personal secretary.