To ensure domestic tranquility: the FBI, COINTELPRO-WHITE HATE and political discourse, 1964-1971
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An analysis of the first aspect of the three-pronged attack of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to nurture anticommunism and to discredit civil rights and leftist movements in discrediting the Ku Klux Klan groups in the American South during the 1960s is provided. The ways the FBI secretly coordinated efforts to discredit Klan organizations before local Southern communities that continued to tolerate vigilante violence are discussed.
Publication Name: Journal of American Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-8758
Year: 2004
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Calvin Coolidge's tragic presidency: The political effects of bereavement and depression
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Calvin Coolidge suffered much bereavement, namely the death of his mother, death of his sister and the death of his young son. However, Coolidge's personality attributes and the early bereavements that he encountered in his childhood created in him a sort of vulnerability, which he could not overcome when he became a President of America.
Publication Name: Journal of American Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-8758
Year: 2005
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