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Racial Matters - by Kenneth O'Reilly (Paperback)

Racial Matters - by  Kenneth O'Reilly (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From 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. <p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Author of <i>Black Americans </i>and <i>Nixon's Piano </i>Kenneth O'Reilly takes a blunt and remarkable look at the FBI and its relentless drive to destroy the civil rights movement and its most visible leader, Martin Luther King, Jr. (<i>The New York Times</i>). </b> <p/>From 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Kenneth O'Reilly is a professor and author of several books, including <i>Nixon's Piano: Presidents and Racial Politics from Washington to Clinton</i>; <i>Racial Matters: The FBI's Secret File on Black America</i>; <i>Black Americans: The FBI File</i>; and <i>Hoover and the Un-Americans: The FBI, HUAC, and the Red Menace. Racial Matters was a</i> <i>New York Times</i> notable book of the year. He is emeritus professor of history at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, and now teaches at Milwaukee Area Technical College. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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