COINTELPRO targets

without warrant Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Church Committee also thoroughly investigated Pyle’s allegations that the Army was infiltrating civil rights and anti-war groups. Moreover, the Committee exposed the FBI Counterintelligence Operations (COINTELPRO), which had used national security as a cover-up to destroy the domestic political opposition. The Church Committee, in its final report, called for Congress…

Nixon. He set the ball in motion by classifying marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug and by directing his government agencies to target black social activists. President Gerald Ford stoked the flames by pushing for and achieving mandatory minimum sentences for drug related crimes in many states. President Ronald Reagan’s administration sullied Nancy Reagan’s…

Original Rainbow Coalition began to fade. The biggest example of this is COINTELPRO’s, a notorious program that focused on bringing down African American organization, assassination of fred Hampton. “They were the target of local and national police surveillance and repression by the FBI’s COINTELPRO program. In 1969, Fred Hampton, Chicago’s best known leader of the Panthers and the Rainbow Coalition was assassinated in a pre-dawn raid. The repression worked, and precious organizing energy was…