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These records testify to the expanding scope of federal law enforcement activities over time and document the role of federal law enforcement agencies and the courts in major events in American history, including the Civil War and Reconstruction, Prohibition, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, and the Civil Rights Movement. </p> <p>As you begin your research, consider this question: how do the people, places, organizations, and events that interest me intersect with the federal government?</p> <p><a class="nwidget nicon-link " data-additional-classes="" data-icon="arrow-right" data-link-text="Getting started with archival research" data-link-to="/research/start" href="/research/start"><i class="fa fa-arrow-right"> </i>Getting started with archival research</a></p> <h2>What are you researching?</h2> <div class="nwidget nlayout ncolumns row " data-columns="2x1_2"> <div class="col-sm-6"> <p> </p> <div class="nwidget ncontainer nmedium_box" data-additional-classes="" data-alt-tag="Ruby Bridges Being Escorted to School by U.S. Marshals into William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana" data-description=" " data-image="/files/research/investigations/landing-page/medium_ruby-bridges-naid175539851.png" data-link="/research/investigations/doj" data-title="Department of Justice Records" data-version="1"> <div class="box box-md clearfix "><a href="/research/investigations/doj"> <div class="box-image"><img alt="Ruby Bridges Being Escorted to School by U.S. Marshals into William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana" src="/files/research/investigations/landing-page/medium_ruby-bridges-naid175539851.png" /></div> <div class="box-content"> <h2>Department of Justice Records</h2> <p> </p> </div> </a></div> </div> <div class="nwidget ncontainer nmedium_box" data-additional-classes="" data-alt-tag="An FBI agent taking the one hundred millionth fingerprint, represented by Margaret O'Brien, a movie star" data-description=" " data-image="/files/research/investigations/landing-page/medium_fbi-fingerprint-naid518186.png" data-link="/research/investigations/fbi" data-title="FBI Records" data-version="1"> <div class="box box-md clearfix "><a href="/research/investigations/fbi"> <div class="box-image"><img alt="An FBI agent taking the one hundred millionth fingerprint, represented by Margaret O'Brien, a movie star" src="/files/research/investigations/landing-page/medium_fbi-fingerprint-naid518186.png" /></div> <div class="box-content"> <h2>FBI Records</h2> <p> </p> </div> </a></div> </div> <div class="nwidget ncontainer nmedium_box" data-additional-classes="" data-alt-tag="Enemy aliens on way to detention camp" data-description=" " data-image="/files/research/investigations/landing-page/medium_enemy-alien-detention-naid31480090.png" data-link="/research/immigration/enemy-aliens" data-title="Enemy Alien Records" data-version="1"> <div class="box box-md clearfix "><a href="/research/immigration/enemy-aliens"> <div class="box-image"><img alt="Enemy aliens on way to detention camp" src="/files/research/investigations/landing-page/medium_enemy-alien-detention-naid31480090.png" /></div> <div class="box-content"> <h2>Enemy Alien Records</h2> <p> </p> </div> </a></div> </div> <div class="nwidget ncontainer nmedium_box" data-additional-classes="" data-alt-tag="President Nixon's Secretary Rose Mary Woods demonstrates "stretch" which purportedly led to the erasure of 18-plus minutes of the Watergate tapes" data-description=" " data-image="/files/research/investigations/landing-page/medium_rose-mary-woods-naid7582819.jpg" data-link="/research/investigations/special-prosecutors-indept-counsels" data-title="Special Prosecutors and Independent Counsels Records" data-version="1"> <div class="box box-md clearfix "><a href="/research/investigations/special-prosecutors-indept-counsels"> <div class="box-image"><img alt="President Nixon's Secretary Rose Mary Woods demonstrates " src="/files/research/investigations/landing-page/medium_rose-mary-woods-naid7582819.jpg" stretch="" /></div> <div class="box-content"> <h2>Special Prosecutors and Independent Counsels</h2> <p> </p> </div> </a></div> </div> <p> </p> </div> <div class="col-sm-6"> <p> </p> <div class="nwidget ncontainer nmedium_box" data-additional-classes="" data-alt-tag="Judgement in the Supreme Court decision Brown v. 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