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The FBI and the Politics of the Riots, 1964-1968

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“…Riots in Harlem, Rochester, and Philadelphia presented political obstacles for launching President Johnson's War on Poverty. 1 Relatedly, the response of law and order to riots and rioters created more tension between blacks in urban areas and local police officers (O'Reilly, 1988).…”
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“…Riots in Harlem, Rochester, and Philadelphia presented political obstacles for launching President Johnson's War on Poverty. 1 Relatedly, the response of law and order to riots and rioters created more tension between blacks in urban areas and local police officers (O'Reilly, 1988).…”
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“… 11. The scale and significance of Watts (Hill 1965a, 1965b) dwarfed the smaller riots that preceded it (Janowitz 1979; O’Reilly 1988; “Text of F.B.I. Report” 1964).…”
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“…What this has meant in more specific historical terms is that the FBI has served as America's secret police: covertly identifying as subversive and in many cases actively intervening against those individuals, organizations, and movements it deems a threat to national security and domestic order. In geographic terms, this has also meant the definition, management, and control of particular unruly spaces: labor halls, black ghettos, and, by 1973, Indian reservations (Churchill and Vander Wall 1988;O'Reilly 1983O'Reilly , 1988O'Reilly , 1989Potter 1998).…”
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“…Between passage of the H Rap Brown Act and its deployment at Wounded Knee roughly five years later, however, the FBI underwent a significant transformation, in which its previous power and autonomy under Hoover were undermined. 12 Disclosure of the aggressive, sometimes illegal manner in which the FBI policed domestic political dissent led to reforms that limited the scope of the organization's power Vander Wall 1988, 1990;O'Reilly 1988O'Reilly , 1989. In the wake of the events of September 11, 2001, however, Attorney General John Ashcroft has worked aggressively not just to restore such power, but arguably to extend it.…”
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