Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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By Any Means wants you to believe the FBI sent Black agents into 1960s Mississippi to take down the Ku Klux Klan. But beneath the movie magic lies a reality: J. Edgar Hoover's FBI was a white boys' club that refused to protect Black folks. When the government hit a wall in Mississippi, They handed the cases to Gregory Scarpa, a Mafia hitman and paid him to kidnap and torture the Klan.

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Deal with the Devil by Peter Lance
Racial Matters by Kenneth O'Reilly
Freedom Summer by Bruce Watson

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