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Award-winning editor and director Sam Pollard lays out a detailed account of the FBI surveillance that dogged King’s activism throughout the ’50s and ’60s, fueled by the racist and red-baiting paranoia of J. Edgar Hoover. Full review.
The big crowds at Madison Square Garden during wartime and a few years after, the excitement at union halls and summer camps for some of the most interesting musicians and lyricists of the time? Gone — gone, but not entirely forgotten.
Officially, the United States doesn't have a secret police, but in actuality it has an abundance of them.
Here is a necessary addition to the literature on FBI harassment of Americans and on U.S. social movements over the last century.
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