LEADER 03407nam 2200493I 450 001 9910818826703321 005 20190502070111.1 010 $a0-262-35638-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000009265243 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5894161 035 $a(OCoLC)1099570719 035 $a(OCoLC-P)1099570719 035 $a(MaCbMITP)12479 035 $a(PPN)253167752 035 $a(FR-PaCSA)88874166 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009265243 100 $a20190501d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aActivists under surveillance $ethe FBI files /$fedited by JPat Brown, B. C. D. Lipton, and Michael Morisy ; foreword by Jameel Jaffer 210 1$aCambridge :$cThe MIT Press,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (391 pages) 311 $a0-262-51789-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 $aSelections from FBI files on political activists including Betty Friedan, Abbie Hoffman, Martin Luther King, Aaron Swartz, and Malcolm X. The FBI has always kept tabs on political activists. During the directorship of J. Edgar Hoover, it was a Bureau-wide obsession. Did you see that guy who didn't quite look like a journalist, taking pictures at a demonstration He was probably FBI. Did you say something mildly subversive in a radio interview It went in your file. Did you attend a meeting of a left-leaning organization The attendee who didn't contribute but took copious notes was possibly an informant. This third volume of selected FBI files liberated by MuckRock documents the FBI's pursuit of activists and dissenters ranging from Margaret Sanger to Malcolm X. Despite the absence of evidence, Hoover suspected Communist influence in every political protest. He grilled Martin Luther King, Jr., about Communist sympathizers in the civil rights movement (while offering reporters off-the-record hints about King's extramarital affairs). The Bureau investigated the supposed threat posed by Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers but not threats to them, even after the detonation of a bomb in their office. The Bureau persevered: files on Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein cover six decades, from unfounded rumors of Communist connections to her participation in a Black Lives Matter demonstration. Recently, we hoped against hope that a former FBI director would save us from our current political predicament. These documents remind us of the FBI's troubling history. The Activists Roger Nash Baldwin, Cesar Chavez, Hedy Epstein, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Betty Friedan, Thelma Glass, Fred Hampton, Abbie Hoffman, Martin Luther King, Jr., Harvey Milk, Bayard Rustin, Margaret Sanger, Aaron Swartz, John Trudell, Malcolm X, Howard Zinn. 606 $aPolitical activists$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aSocial reformers$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aGovernmental investigations$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aPolitical activists 615 0$aSocial reformers 615 0$aGovernmental investigations$xHistory 676 $a303.48/4092 702 $aBrown$b J. Patrick 702 $aLipton$b Beryl 702 $aMorisy$b Michael 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818826703321 996 $aActivists under surveillance$94030294 997 $aUNINA