COINTELPRO targets

supporting the Black Panthers that said "Honkeys for Huey." This is not something the FBI nor the American Government liked so it seems they did things to ensure the Black Panther party was looked down on and ultimately ended up with as little following and support as possible and were no longer able to protect their community. A tale as old as time, whatever the black community came up with to protect their own it was made ugly and made to look as if it was all out of hate and violence so that it was no longer allowed. In August of 1967 the FBI came up with a program called COINTELPRO to “ neutralize” what they called “ Black Nationalist hate groups.” In 1968 J. Edgar Hoover described the Black Panther Party as “ the greatest threat to the internal security of the country.” By 1969 , the Black Panthers and many of their allies and other “ black nationalist” groups were the main targets of the COINTELPRO movement. COINTELPRO was to ensure that black militant groups, those who support the groups and those who may benefit from the groups were weakened and made to look like a criminal organization, this was to ensure they no longer received support or became any larger then they were. Some of the other groups targeted were The Nation of Islam, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael, H. Rap Brown, Maxwell Stanford as well as Elijah Muhammad. The FBI didn’t stop there, this was also geared to start animosity between the groups. In one case the FBI sent an anonymous letter…

In 1996, Bobby Seale alongside Huey Newton became one of two co-founders of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) in Oakland, California. The FBI presented the group as a terrorist or hate group, and made part of the mission of the organization to destroy the BPP, even though the BPP was nowhere near being as violent a threat. In his book Seize the Time, Seale wrote of the group’s victories and downfalls, including how the FBI exaggerated the nefariousness of the group and deceived the…

The black panthers used the media to their advantage and rapidly began to grow capturing the attention of thousands of Americans. As a result of the party's growth, groups such as the Ku Klux Klan began to make their way into the federal law enforcement advocating racist and violent abuse towards people of color. The leader at the time, President Hoover began to notice the advancement of the movement and feared "the rise of the black messiah", and the white allies who united to support the…

"Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale's insistence that they be allowed to patrol black neighborhoods with firearms immediately involved them in violent confrontations with the police." (Conlin). The F.B.I soon began planning extreme measures to shut the Black Panther Party down, as well as all of its members. On June 5th James Meredith started a March Against Fear from Memphis to Jackson to protest against racism. After police shot him down, the revolution took a turning point. Blacks became more…

political freedoms (Black Panther Party). In response to the Black Panthers carrying weapons, they proposed gun control legislation, which banned the carrying of loaded weapons in public (Black Panther Party). Black Panther Party members outraged by the California legislation to call for gun control to keep African Americans powerless against police brutality and white aggression they entered the capital in a militant formation and those who protested were arrested (Black Panther Party). They…

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The Black Panther was founded in October of 1966 in Oakland, California by Huey Newton and Bobby Sedle .Black Panther Party for self defense of minority communities against the U.S Government ,they also fought for establishing revolutionary socialism mass organizing and community based programs. This program was the first organization of the military struggle for ethnic and class emancipation a party who had classified real economic, social and political equality across gender and color lines.…

Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” In 2016, Black people feel as if their lives do not matter and they refuse to remain silent about that any longer. With bad media portrayal to police brutality, Blacks feel as if their lives have been diminished to less than human. Blacks do not feel safe in their own country; they do not feel protected by their law enforcement. Therefore, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement was…