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Lerone A. Martin is Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University and author of The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism.
Jeanne Theoharis speaks with Lerone A. Martin on the white Christian legacy of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI.
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