After thousands of FBI documents were declassified to the Freedom of Information Act, historian Lerone A. Martin, an Associate Professor of Religious Studies, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Chair and Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University, put together the pieces of a deep relationship between FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and white evangelicals, Catholics, and nationalist groups.
Martin will present his research from his new book, The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover, at the Levis Faculty Center at the University of Illinois at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 9th. His lecture, “The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism” explores how that “partnership solidi[ied] the political norms of white evangelicalism and contribute[d] to the political rise of white Christian nationalism,” to ultimately establish the way the FBI and debates about national security operate today.
Lerone A. Martin
“The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism”
Levis Faulty Center
919 W Illinois Ave
Urbana
W March 9th, 7:30 p.m., free
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