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""Seeing Red"" : Federal Campaigns Against Black Militancy, 1919-1925 (98 Edition)by Theodore Jr. Kornweibel
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Publisher Comments:Now in Paper Seeing Red Federal CampaignsAgainst Black Militancy, 1919-1925 Theodore Kornweibel, Jr. A gripping, painstakingly documented account of a neglectedchapter in the history of American politicalintelligence. Kornweibel is an adept storyteller who admits he isdrawn to the role of the historian-as-detective....What emerges is a fascinatingtale of secret federal agents, many of them blacks, who were willing to takeadvantage of the color of their skin to spy upon others of their race. And it is atale of sometimes desperate and frequently angry government officials, including J.Edgar Hoover, who were willing to go to great lengths to try to stop what theyperceived as threats to continued white supremacy. — Patrick S. Washburn, Journalism History Theodore Kornweibel, Jr., Professor of AfricanAmerican history in the Africana Studies Department at San Diego State University, is author of No Crystal Stair and In Search of the PromisedLand. Blacks in the Diaspora — Darlene Clark Hine, JohnMcCluskey, Jr., and David Barry Gaspar, general editors Synopsis:"Seeing Red" is a gripping, painstakingly documented account of a neglected chapter in the history of American political intelligence. From 1918 into the early 1920s, any African Americans who spoke out forcefully for their race — editors, union organizers, civil rights advocates, radical political activists, and Pan-Africanists — were likely to be investigated by a network of federal intelligence agencies. The "crime" that justified such surveillance was almost always the ideas they expressed. Agents of the federal government watched them, tapped their phones, rifled their offices, opened their mail, infiltrated their organizations, intimidated their audiences, and caused them to suffer the prospect of prosecutions, all because these agents disapproved of their beliefs. A young J. Edgar Hoover was convinced that black militancy — including the demand for civil rights — was communist-inspired and a threat to both national security and white hegemony, views that would remain part of the FBI's gospel well into the 1970s.
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