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Judas and the Black Messiah portrays J. Edgar Hoover as a very racist person, and he somehow served decades as the Director of the FBI. Is the film’s portrayal accurate? Were the presidents he served under aware of his racist tendencies? Did they reinforce his racial beliefs?

by /u/youzurnaim in /r/AskHistorians

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