A spy in Canaan: how the FBI used a famous photographer to infiltrate the civil rights movement 9781612193410, 9781612194400, 1612193412

"Ernest Withers captured some of the most iconic moments of the civil rights movement--from the rare photo of Marti

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English Pages xvii, 349 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm Year 2018

A spy in Canaan: how the FBI used a famous photographer to infiltrate the civil rights movement
9781612193410, 9781612194400, 1612193412

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Table of contents :
Introduction --
Part 1. The Assassination: In the shadows
A moment of peace --
Part 2. The Discovery: The agent's tale
A bold photographer
'No angel'
Into the shed
Informant ME 338-R --
Part 3. The Big Break: Up on the ridge
The secret of the notes
A tarnished badge
An accusing finger: the Emmett Till case
The breakthrough --
Part 4. Spying on the Movement: Assignment: tent city
Tracking James Forman
A prolific informant: Summer 1961
Communists, socialists, Black Muslims and assorted do-gooders: 1962-1965
The electric cross: the FBI gets tough, Summer 1965
James Lawson, civil rights and the peace movement
The war in Memphis: disrupting the peace movement
The communist resurgence: dirty tricks, fear and harassment --
Part 5. To the Brink: the FBI 's War on Dr. King and Black Power: The rise of the invaders: COINTELPRO, the media and the FBI
'Is anyone looking for us?': the risks of working undercover
'How rotten, how filthy': undercutting sympathizers and supporters
Death of a movement: the FBI and the collapse of the SCLC
The Black Panthers, Hoover and the end of an era --
Afterword.

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