Racial matters: the FBI's secret file on black America - Kenneth O'Reilly

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Black Panthers in Philadelphia being stripped and arrested

A meticulously researched study into how the FBI attempted to disrupt and repress the civil rights movement in the US in the 1960s and 70s.

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