Problem
Describe the two competing mandates of the FBI beginning with the Roosevelt Administration through the Kennedy administration. How did these different mandates interfere or support the Freedom Riders of 1961, and other Civil Rights initiatives and what sort of considerations were claimed as necessary for the FBI when alerting state and local police departments about specific Civil Rights related actions? How were these considerations distorted to absolve the FBI from responsibility for taking action during the Civil Rights movement? What was the reaction of those working to secure civil rights and the roll of the FBI?
Read the article The FBI and the Civil Rights Movement during the Kennedy Years--from the Freedom Rides to Albany.