California educator Millie McGhee, author of “Secrets Uncovered: J. Edgar Hoover, Passing for White,” talks about her research into her family genealogy and her revelation that Hoover was her grandfather’s second cousin. If these allegations are true, was J. Edgar Hoover, according to American Common Law, an African American?
By American cultural standards and practices, one drop of Black blood makes an individual 100% Black. If so, since that is the conventional American standard for racial classification, was J. Edgar Hoover, the infamous founding director of the FBI, passing for White?
Millie McGhee is convinced that he was. She's an African-American school teacher who says her late grandfather (“Big Daddy”) told her that Hoover was his second cousin. Rumors of Hoover's Black roots are not entirely new, of course. McGhee herself was raised on a former slave plantation owned by a Hoover family in Pike County, Mississippi. These Hoovers, she maintains, were related to another Hoover clan living in Washington, D.C.
In 1960, McGhee came home from a history class to ask whether J. Edgar Hoover might be related to the Hoovers in her own family. "He's my second cousin," Big Daddy told Millie McGhee. "But you must never tell anyone because it's a family secret,” her grandfather told her.
According to Millie McGhee, the extended family history, the McGhees descend from the union of a slave woman and her slave master. In 1814, that relationship resulted in the birth of Elizabeth Allan, who later went to Maryland with William Hoover. The McGhee family history says that Elizabeth had seven children by William Hoover, including one light-skinned daughter, Emily Allan, who was allegedly taken from Elizabeth in Maryland, and sent to live in Mississippi. Millie McGhee's grandfather, Big Daddy, was the grandson of Emily Allan.
There is ample evidence that light-skinned Blacks often "passed" in White society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Was J. Edgar Hoover passing for White?
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