The informant: the FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and the murder of Viola Liuzzo
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In The Informant, historian Gary May reveals the untold story of the murder of civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo, shot to death by members of the violent Birmingham Ku Klux Klan at the end of Martin Luther King's historic Voting Rights March in 1965. The case drew national attention and was solved almost instantly, because one of the Klansman present during the shooting was Gary Thomas Rowe, an undercover FBI informant. At the time, Rowe's information and subsequent testimony were heralded as a triumph of law enforcement. But as Gary May reveals in this provocative and powerful book, Rowe's history of collaboration with both the Klan and the FBI was far more complex. Based on previously unexamined FBI and Justice Department Records, The Informant demonstrates that in their ongoing efforts to protect Rowe's cover, the FBI knowingly became an accessory to some of the most grotesque crimes of the Civil Rights era--including a vicious attack on the Freedom Riders and perhaps even the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. A tale of a renegade informant and an intelligence system ill-prepared to deal with threats from within, The Informant offers a dramatic and cautionary tale about what can happen when secret police power goes unchecked.
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Alabama
Alabama -- Lowndes County
Biographies
Biography
Civil Rights
Civil rights workers
Civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Biography
Défenseurs des droits de l'homme
Défenseurs des droits de l'homme -- Alabama -- Biographies
Electronic books
États-Unis. -- Federal Bureau of Investigation
General
HISTORY
HISTORY -- General
Human Rights
Informers
Informers -- Alabama -- Biography
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Liuzzo, Viola
Liuzzo, Viola, -- 1925-1965
Meurtre
Meurtre -- Alabama -- Lowndes
Murder
Murder -- Alabama -- Lowndes County
Opérations secrètes
Opérations secrètes -- Alabama
Political Freedom & Security
POLITICAL SCIENCE
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights
Rowe, Gary Thomas
Selma-Montgomery Rights March, 1965
Selma to Montgomery Rights March
Selma to Montgomery Rights March -- (1965 : -- Selma, Ala.)
Undercover operations
Undercover operations -- Alabama
United States. -- Federal Bureau of Investigation
Alabama -- Lowndes County
Biographies
Biography
Civil Rights
Civil rights workers
Civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Biography
Défenseurs des droits de l'homme
Défenseurs des droits de l'homme -- Alabama -- Biographies
Electronic books
États-Unis. -- Federal Bureau of Investigation
General
HISTORY
HISTORY -- General
Human Rights
Informers
Informers -- Alabama -- Biography
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Liuzzo, Viola
Liuzzo, Viola, -- 1925-1965
Meurtre
Meurtre -- Alabama -- Lowndes
Murder
Murder -- Alabama -- Lowndes County
Opérations secrètes
Opérations secrètes -- Alabama
Political Freedom & Security
POLITICAL SCIENCE
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights
Rowe, Gary Thomas
Selma-Montgomery Rights March, 1965
Selma to Montgomery Rights March
Selma to Montgomery Rights March -- (1965 : -- Selma, Ala.)
Undercover operations
Undercover operations -- Alabama
United States. -- Federal Bureau of Investigation
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The informant [electronic resource] : the FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and the murder of Viola Liuzzo / Gary May
The informant : the FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and the murder of Viola Liuzzo / Gary May
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Liuzzo, Viola
Liuzzo, Viola, -- 1925-1965
Meurtre
Murder
Murder -- Alabama -- Lowndes County
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POLITICAL SCIENCE
Political Freedom & Security
Rowe, Gary Thomas
Selma-Montgomery Rights March, 1965
Undercover operations
United States. -- Federal Bureau of Investigation
Civil rights workers
Civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Biography
Défenseurs des droits de l'homme
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HISTORY
Human Rights
Informers
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Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Liuzzo, Viola
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Murder
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Political Freedom & Security
Rowe, Gary Thomas
Selma-Montgomery Rights March, 1965
Undercover operations
United States. -- Federal Bureau of Investigation
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