This is how we know that William O’Neal, Hampton’s bodyguard, was an FBI informant.38 This is how we know that the FBI believed Stokely Carmichael had “the necessary charisma to be a real threat in this way” because, during the Freedom Rides, he began using the phrase “Black Power.”39 This is how we know that the FBI sent a “suicide package” to Martin Luther King Jr. after Hoover heard the “I Have a Dream” speech and told agents, “We must mark him now if we have not done so before, as the most dangerous Negro of the future in this nation.”40
