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J. Edgar Hoover

    Black and white photo of J. Edgar Hoover shaking hands with a middle-aged woman. Hoover is dressed in a dark suit, and the woman is wearing a straight dark dress, a large oval hat, a pearl necklace, and a large sash that flows from her right shoulder to a point on her torso below her left hand.

    FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in 1940, on the eve of his agency beginning its surveillance of Paul Robeson. Hoover remained Robeson’s nemesis in the first two decades of the Cold War era.

    1940
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    Public Domain
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    Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division