55 O’Reilly, “Racial Matters,” 336-37. Division administrators toned down
the Jackson agents, reminding them to focus on the Tougaloo Political Action
Committee, “since Tougaloo College, per se, is not a counterintelligence
target.” See also Donner, The Age of Surveillance, 219-20. Donner says the
FBI forced the departure from Mississippi of Muhammad Kenyatta, a
prominent black nationalist in Jackson. In internal memos, FBI agents took
credit for setting up Kenyatta on the charge of attempting to steal a television
set from Tougaloo College. Actually, Kenyatta hastened his own departure by
getting caught while doing just that.
56 O’Reilly, “Racial Matters,” 337.
57 Ross Gelbspan, Break-ins, Death Threats, and the FBI (Boston: South End
Press, 1991).
58 Danny Glover’s Freedom Song, although more accurate, is almost
unknown.
59 Seth Cagin and Philip Dray, We Are Not Afraid (New York: Bantam Books,
1991), describes the murders and the FBI’s reluctant but eventually effective
police work.
60 Arthur Schlesinger Jr., quoted in Branch, Parting the Waters, 918-19.
61 See Beverly Kraft, “Some Lack Knowledge About Evers,” Jackson
Clarion Ledger, January 20, 1994, 1A.
62 To a degree, Boorstin and Kelley also provide this analysis, but their
overall treatment is muddled and might lead students to conclude the very
opposite.
63 Patrick Ferguson, “Promoting Political Participation: Teachers’ Attitudes
and Instructional Practices” (San Francisco: American Educational Research
Association, 1989).
64 Critique by James F. Delong (Hoover, AL: 1986, typescript, distributed by
Mel Gabler’s Educational Research Analysts, 1993).
65 Donald Barr, Who Pushed Humpty Dumpty? Dilemmas in American
Education Today (New York: Atheneum, 1972), 308; Lewis Lapham,
Pretensions to Empire (New York: New Press, 2006), 24.
66 Michigan State Board of Education, 1982-83 Michigan Social Studies
Textbook Report (Lansing, MI: Michigan State Board of Education, 1984).