this is a manuscript collection that we acquired from a woman named phyllis johnson. she was a very conservative person who lived in california. the minuteember of women of the united states. they call themselves a nonpartisan organization. they united to combat communism, socialism, fascism, or collectivism in america. this is one of the newer parts of the wilcox collection that we have acquired. do-it-yourself publications that people creates around an issue or a part of their lives. they might even talk about their feelings about different issues like bullying or things like that. the advantages are that you can just byone yourself cutting and pasting images and then xeroxing the sheets, stapling them together. you can do 10 or 20 and pass them around among your friends. we have probably about 1500. sometimes we face criticism for collecting the materials that we do -- the more extreme materials, because people feel we are given these -- giving these organizations a platform. you have to keep in mind that this is a collection that is based on free speech, and a uni

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thank phyllis bennis of the institute for policy studies and yazan al-saadi, syrian-canadian writer andnd researcher. when we come back, we are going to talkon, mississippi, with derrick johnsonthe head of the naacp, why they are staging a boycott of facebook for a week. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "nothing to hide" by yo la tengo. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. nermeen: we turn now to new revelations that russian trolls targeted african americans on social media in an effort to influence the vote ahead of the 2016 election. a pair of bipartisan reports published by the senate intelligence committee monday claimed the russssian government focused on a african-ameriricann its effortrt to suppress the turnout of voters likely to cact ballots fofor hillary clintoton. spreading fake news and d sowing discord d in the r run-up to the election. the disinformation effort was conducted by the russian state-supported internet research agency, or ira. the ira cultivated black audiences and recruited african americans as assets on facebook and instagram. in response, the naacp has launched a one-week digita