Book: The FBI used ‘dirty tricks’ to target Black artists

A new book outlines how the FBI waged a decades-long harassment campaign against prominent African American writers and activists.

In F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature (Princeton, 2015), William J. Maxwell, a professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, describes the “dirty tricks” the agency used to keep tabs on Black artists and how they continued to express themselves.

Here, Maxwell discusses the FBI’s most egregious gambits, how targets responded, and how conspiracy theories continue to shape the American imagination:

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