300 | Thomas E. Ricks: How the Civil Rights Movement Waged a "Good War"
The Realignment
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The Generals American Military Command: From World War II to Today
When you actually begin to get a genuine social change, the threat against you will go up. In Mississippi in 1963, movement intelligence gathering discovered that credibly the response to any big major civil rights movement into Mississippi would be the systematic assassination of leaders. No one, for good or for ill, BLM, occupied Wall Street, those folks aren't being assassinated right now though. So it seems like the threat environment is different.
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