To commemorate the 50-year anniversary of W. E. B. Du Bois’s death in 2013, New York City artist Ann Messner created an installation at UMass Amherst titled “ DuBois: The FBI Files .” Messner’s work addressed federal surveillance of the black radical scholar in the McCarthy era of ferocious anticommunism...
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