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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State of the art: Martin Luther King, Jr
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The rise of Martin Luther King, Jr. to leadership during the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama to his 1968 assassination in Memphis, Tennessee are narrated. A number of studies examining the civil rights movement at local and state levels made it clear that civil rights struggles already existed in many of the communities where King and the organization of which he was president ran civil rights campaigns in 1960s.
Publication Name: Journal of American Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-8758
Year: 2004
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"A cheap trafficking in human misery": The Reverse Freedom Rides of 1962
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The Reverse Freedom Rides of 1962 were conceived as a means of restoring the declining political influence of the White Citizens' Council that was established on July 1954. The Council became the most powerful political force that was organized in opposition to racial integration and claimed a membership of at least 300,000.
Publication Name: Journal of American Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-8758
Year: 2004
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