The FBI file of the late Benjamin Hooks, obtained by TPM via a FOIA request, offers a glimpse into the life of the civil rights activist and longtime executive director of the NAACP — and into the political climate of the early 1970s, when ties to suspected “communists” were still a red flag to the FBI.
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