20. The anti-communist FBI worked to box in the civil rights movement with daily harassment, spying and blacklist of radical voices.
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21. FBI's harassment of Civil Rights movement is big story. Let's focus in on a detail: the murder of Viola Liuzzo
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22. Viola Liuzzo was shot dead by a Klansman in 1965 After her death FBI spent more time smearing her reputation going after killer.
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23. Liuzzo was a mother of 5, so FBI agents off the record told reporters, why did he abandon kids, was she a good wife and mother?
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24. There's a whole history here that the United States has still not come to terms with. There's still a Hoover Building in Washington DC
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25. Movies like "Mississippi Burning" teach Americans that FBI agents were heroes during Civil Rights Era.
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@EricKleefeld Right -- but the Mississippi Burning version really glosses over the complexity.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@HeerJeet Moreover: Ike, JFK, and LBJ all went through their evolutions on the subject — itself a fascinating story.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@EricKleefeld Of course, responding to popular movements. My point being Hoover was major check on those popular movements.
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@HeerJeet Though come to think of it, do movie-going audiences in any other country go in for such complicated histories?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes - Show replies
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