civil rights era

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How The FBI Tried To Block Martin Luther King’s Commencement Speech

Martin Dobrow | The Atlantic | June 11, 2014

The untold story of a government plot, a maverick college president, and the most important figure of the civil rights era...

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The History Of Surveillance And The Black Community

Nadia Kayyali | Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) | February 13, 2014

February is Black History Month and that history is intimately linked with surveillance by the federal government in the name of "national security."  Indeed, the history of surveillance in the African-American community plays an important role in the debate around spying today and in the calls for a congressional investigation into that surveillance. [...] Read More »