Racial Matters
Subtitle: The FBI's Secret File on Black America, 1960-1972
Publisher: Free Press
Published: April 1, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780029236826
Subjects: Black studies; Human rights; Racism & racial discrimination; Social history; c 1960 to c 1970; c 1970 to c 1980; United States - 20th Century; History - General History; History; History: American; USA; United States - 20th Century/60s; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Government - National; Afro-Americans; History / Modern / 20th Century; History-United States - 20th Century/60s; Political Science-Government - U.S. Government; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights
First sentence: For better or for worse, the history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the history of black America have been linked together almost from the Bureau's beginning in 1908, when Charles J. Bonaparte, nephew of Napoleon III and President Theodore Roosevelt's attorney general, established a "Bureau of Investigation."