J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, seemed to have a personal vendetta against Martin Luther King, Jr. because

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Martin Luther King, Jr. had criticized southern FBI agents for sharing the mores of their community, which upset J. Edgar Hoover and fueled his personal vendetta against King. Hoover felt that King was attacking the FBI, and he believed that King was a threat to national security. This led Hoover to use illegal and unethical tactics to try to discredit and undermine King's reputation and the civil rights movement as a whole.

J Edgar Hoover, Head of the FBI, Seemed to Have