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Racial Matters: The FBI's Secret File on Black America, 1960-1972

by Kenneth O'Reilly

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An examination of the FBI’s role in the civil-rights era

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An examination of the FBI’s role in the civil-rights era

Covering the years 1960 to 1972, Kenneth O’Reilly’s history places FBI activity within the United States’ wider struggle over racial equality and justice. The book traces the agency’s position from the Kennedy through Nixon administrations, arguing that political loyalties, institutional priorities, and prejudice shaped its treatment of the civil-rights movement and Martin Luther King Jr. Its subject is not only federal law enforcement but also the collision between state power and Black political organizing during a pivotal period in American history.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers studying the U.S. civil-rights movement
  • Those interested in FBI and federal-government history
  • Readers of African American studies and twentieth-century U.S. history

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Civil rightsFBI surveillance and powerRacial justiceBlack political organizingU.S. government history

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Book overview

Author of Black Americans and Nixon's Piano Kenneth O'Reilly takes a blunt and remarkable look at the FBI and "its relentless drive to destroy the civil rights movement and its most visible leader, Martin Luther King, Jr." (The New York Times).

From Kennedy to Nixon, the FBI unwillingly found itself at the center of the struggle for racial equality and justice. Kenneth O'Reilly tells the shocking story of how political loyalties, priorities, and prejudices turned a government agency into an adversary, instead of a protector, of civil rights.
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