Segregation-Era Agency's Files Unsealed

[Judi Lynn]

Segregation-Era Agency's Files Unsealed

Thursday August 4, 2005 12:01 PM

By SAMIRA JAFARI
Associated Press Writer

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The final documents have been unsealed from a segregation-era state agency that secretly tracked the activities of civil rights workers and suspected subversives, including a white teenager who was dating a black man.

Kept under seal by a federal court order to protect juveniles named in its documents, the last four files of the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace were made public this week by state archivists.

The commission looked into a wide range of events during the civil rights era, ranging from lunchroom brawls between black and white students in city schools to suspected communists making ``frequent trips to the Iron Curtain countries.''

``They were sort of like an intelligence-gathering organization for the extreme right wing,'' said Sam Webb, a history professor at University of Alabama at Birmingham, who remembered commission investigators photographing a war protest in 1970.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5189162,00.html

[wli]

1. There's a COINTELPRO revival type thing going on now

I wonder what it'll say. The FBI wiretapping the ACLU is pretty damning.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. why is the Guardian reporting on this, and not US media?

too close to today's truth?

[hayu_lol]

3. Judi, you always come up with the most interesting threads...

this is another of them. Thanks.

[Judi Lynn]

4. The final paragraph was haunting....

``This commission was in existence for 15 years. It's our belief there was material purged from these files before the case went to court and the court seized the files,'' she said.

Makes you wonder how very, very much was done to try to radically surpress our country.

What's almost unbearable is the fact they want to do it again. Reminds one of that remark by Michael Corleone: "Every time I think I'm out, they pull me back in."

We only THOUGHT we had come a long way from the 1960's.

Thank you for your very kind remark. This is a good time to tell you I've always gotten a kick from your screen name!



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