Machine generated contents note: Prologue. "Patriotism and Loyalty Presuppose Protection
and Liberty" 1
1. "It became necessary to investigate everything": The Birth of Modem
Political Intelligence 10
2. "Very full of the anti-war spirit": Fears of Enemy Subversion during
World War I 37
3. "Slackers, Delinquents, and Deserters": African Americans and Draft
Enforcement during World War I 76
4. "The most dangerous of all Negro journals": Federal Efforts to Silence
the Chicago Defender 118
5. "Every word is loaded with sedition": The Crisis and the NAACP
under Suspicion 132
6. "I thank my God for the persecution": The Church of God in Christ
under Attack 149
7. "Rabid and inflammatory": Further Attacks on the Pen
and Pulpit 164
8. "Spreading enemy propaganda": Alien Enemies, Spies,
and Subversives 188
9. "Perhaps you will be shot": Sex, Spies, Science, and the
Moens Case 199
10. "Negro Subversion": Army Intelligence Investigations during
World War I 226
Epilogue. "The Negro is 'seeing red'": From the World War into
the Red Scare 270.