Retired Special Agent in Charge Wayne Davis, one of the first African American special agents to attend the FBI Academy and meet all standard special agent qualifications, provides a fascinating personal and historical account of diversity in the FBI and his private meeting with Director J. Edgar Hoover in 1965, at which time the Director Hoover expressed his views about Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement. Wayne Davis served 25 years with the FBI. During his career, he ran the Detroit and Philadelphia Offices.

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