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""Spying on Students draws together an impressive amount of original research to offer a perceptive and insightful picture of the ubiquity of southern law enforcement surveillance of liberal activists during the 1960s. Michel's extremely well-written study features an especially valuable portrait of such practices in Memphis, Tennessee.""--David J. Garrow, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ""An important and timely study of the surveillance of white student activists in the American South. Using a wealth of new files and sources, Gregg L. Michel deepens our understanding of the intertwined histories of the New Left and law enforcement in the 1960s. The result is a fascinating read as well as a cautionary tale.""--Beverly Gage, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century ""This well-crafted, engrossing account of government efforts to silence southern activists should warn us of the fragility of democracy, in history and to the present day.""--Michael K. Honey, author of To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice

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Gregg L. Michel is associate professor of history at the University of Texas at San Antonio and author of Struggle for a Better South: The Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1964-1969.

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