Racial Matters: The FBI's Secret File on Black America, 1960-1972From 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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| Title | Racial Matters: The FBI's Secret File on Black America, 1960-1972 |
| Author | Kenneth O'Reilly |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Free Press, 1991 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 4 Jun 2009 |
| ISBN | 0029236827, 9780029236826 |
| Length | 468 pages |
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