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Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America by Cass R. Sunstein

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In 1936, Lawrence Dennis wrote a book titled The Coming American Fascism.

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“And the Nation echoed and enforced this self-criticism, saying: Be content to be servants, and nothing more; what need of higher culture for half-men? Away with the black man's ballot, by force or fraud,—and behold the suicide of a race!”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

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“Inexplicably to many whites, blacks continued to express dissatisfaction.”
― Charles E. Cobb, This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible

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“Black farmers like Henry Shepherd and his family threatened, “by their example, the whole system of servitude and forced labor which is the base of the local economy,” McCarthy wrote.”
― Gilbert King, Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

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