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Hoover and FBI under Kennedy era civil rights clash
The piece traces J Edgar Hoover's long effort to purge corruption from the FBI since 1924 and describes how Kennedy pushed the bureau into organized crime and civil rights work. It notes the Travel Act expansion in 1961, a direct line to the attorney general, and Hoover's resistance to racial reform, yielding a strained relationship with civil rights leaders led by Martin Luther King Jr.
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