Hoover’s black-messiah obsession began with the UNIA in the 1920s

Evidence

Robert A. Hill in discussions with this author has traced J. Edgar Hoover’s sly obsession with the emergence of a “Black messiah” to his acquaintance with the UNIA in the 1920s. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2236

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to FBI COINTELPRO-era targeting of Black leaders such as Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, the seventies aftermath of this arc.