You would be sent to mccarthys committee and blacklisted, deported somewhere. They decided to adhere to nonviolence when they were marching. The people we associate most with nonviolence like dr. King, he often had armed bodyguards surrounding his home. Its a fellowship of reconciliation, went to visit Martin Luther king in the early days of the montgomery bus boycott. He had decided on being gandhian. He wrote back and said, this place is an arsenal. You had so many guns around the house, and they convinced him not to do it great its a mess, i think. It. Its a mess, i think. Questions . Thank you all so much for coming. [applause] coming up next on American History tv, historian and author Douglas Charles discusses his book, hoovers more on days, war on gays. Thanbi accumulated more sex000 pages on socalled deviants. These files were destroyed in 1977 and 1978. Professor charles discusses his research into the history of the program and the public and official perception of gays durin
His files to using get his way, often times, with politicians. Mansecond is of a secretive wearing a feather blower, sashaying around washington,. C. With his lover one of those is verifiable. Based on historical evidence. He other is not nevertheless it has become an irrepressible cultural meme rooted in innuendo, and supposition. It captured the two major hoover era of sessions. Ommunists and gays until now the fbi preoccupation with gays and the means a targeted gays have not been documented and examined only in limited ways. Public discourses over the fbi and gays center around the idea of a gay hoover targeting his own through overcompensation. We cannot know what his sexuality was unless we are willing to use stereotyping as evidence of a persons character or nature. Having no convincing evidence sexuality isovers a causal factor in explaining why is fbi targeted gaze for 40 targeted gays for 40 years is not helpful to understanding what the fbi did. Let me take you on a whirlwin
J edgar hoover. Two images come to mind. The first is the long serving fbi director with his vaunted files. Targeting communists and leftists. Using his files to get his way with politicians. Image is of a secretive man wearing a black cocktail dress and a feather boa and high heels with his secret lover, clyde tolson. One of those is verifiable. The other is not. An irrepressible cultural meme with innuendos and suppositions. They capture the two major hoover of sessions of communism and gays. The fbis preoccupation with gays, has not been very well documented and examined only in limited ways. Public discourse over the fbi and gays often center on the idea of a gay hoover targeting his own through some kind of overcompensation. The fact of the matter is we dont know. We cannot know what his sexuality was. Unless were willing to use stereotyping somehow as evidence. Not knowing and having no convincing evidence means hoovers sexuality is a causal factor in why the fbi targeted gays fo