Publication

1989 - Free Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

114,000 words, Guess

Page Count

456 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing523217
  • Goodreads3152775

Classifications

  • DDC973/.0496073
  • LCCE185.615 .O74 1989

Description

Uses the contents of FBI files obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

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."

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Racial matters: the FBI's secret file on Black America, 1960-1972Free Press1989-01-01

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