FBI • 2011
Benjamin Hooks Part 01 (Final)
Benjamin Lawson Hooks (1925-2010) was a civil rights leader who served as the director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for more than a decade. This release consists of a background investigation file with materials dated 1972-1980 and several investigative files concerning threats against Hooks or the NAACP between 1987 and 1990.
Declassified
Civil Rights
Timeline
- Created
- Mar 8, 2011
- Released
- Mar 8, 2011
- Publication
- Mar 8, 2011
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Benjamin Hooks
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Pages
223 pages
File Size
— PDF document, 10,870 kB (11,131,519 bytes)