Spying on Students: The Fbi, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s South by Michel, Gregg L.
Spying on Students: The Fbi, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s South by Michel, Gregg L.

Spying on Students: The Fbi, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s South

Gregg L. Michel's Spying on Students focuses on the law enforcement campaign against New Left and progressive...
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Spying on Students: The Fbi, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s South by Michel, Gregg L.

Spying on Students: The Fbi, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s South

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Spying on Students: The Fbi, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s South by Michel, Gregg L.

Spying on Students: The Fbi, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s South

BD$101.07
Author: Gregg L. Michel
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Gregg L. Michel's Spying on Students focuses on the law enforcement campaign against New Left and progressive student activists in the South during the 1960s. Often overlooked by scholars, white southern students worked alongside their Black peers in the civil rights struggle, drove opposition to the Vietnam War, and embraced the counterculture's rejection of conventions and norms. While African Americans bore the brunt of police surveillance and harassment, federal agencies such as the FBI and local police intelligence units known as Red Squads subjected white student activists to wide-ranging, intrusive, and illegal monitoring. By examining the experiences of white students in the South, Michel provides fresh insights into the destructive, weaponized spying tactics deployed by state actors in their attempts to quash dissent in the region.

Drawing on previously secret FBI files and records of other investigative agencies, Michel demonstrates that authorities at all levels of government turned the full power of their offices against white activists--listening to their conversations, infiltrating their meetings, and sowing discord within their families and schools. Efforts to surveil and repress social activism reflected officials' fear of growing unrest on the part of white students who questioned the southern racial status quo and recoiled as the horrors of Vietnam laid bare the shibboleth of American exceptionalism. As white students revolted on campuses elsewhere, most notably at Berkeley and Columbia, law enforcement sought to curtail such disruptions in the South. In their view, white students threatened domestic tranquility and therefore warranted close monitoring.

Spying on Students presents a unique perspective on state actors' war on dissent, exposing their suspicion of opposing political beliefs and revealing their paranoia as they sought to preserve the existing racial order. The work complicates further the dominant narrative of the era that casts white southern students as opponents of social change. The counterintelligence operations employed against them show not only that white students valued political engagement and social activism but also that authorities considered them a menace to the country as a whole.

Author: Gregg L. Michel
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 09/04/2024
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.40w x 1.13d
ISBN: 9780807182222

About the Author
Gregg L. Michel is associate professor of history at the University of Texas at San Antonio and author of Struggle for a Better South: The Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1964-1969.
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