Gregg L. Michel (Spying on Students: The FBI, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s South) draws on previously secret FBI files to show that during the civil rights struggle of the 1960s, the FBI and local police intelligence units known as Red Squads subjected white student activists to wide-ranging, intrusive, and illegal monitoring to quash dissent in the South.
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Gregg L. Michel is a Professor of History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He received a BA from the University of Chicago and an MA and PhD from the University of Virginia. Dr. Michel’s scholarly work focuses on movements for social change in post-World War II America, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s South. He is the author of Struggle for a Better South: The Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1964-1969.
Kirsten Gardner is a professor of history and director of medical humanities at UTSA. As the Romo Endowed Chair of honors college and a distinguished teaching professor, she loves to discuss books, narratives and the stories we share.
