COINTELPRO

Police have been around in the United States for centuries, exampled by its creation dating back to America’s colonies, where the police were called constables. However, due to polices deep association with United States history, it has ultimately faced a lack of analyzation and criticism. Yet, the police force in the United States has faced analyzation and criticism in 2017, due to a rise of tension between the police and those of color deriving from an increase of African American deaths by…

Huey reflected upon the mis-treatment in his book To Die for the People; "The police were very brutal to us even at that age" (Newton 53). Police harassment and physical abuse of Black people became part of every day life for many Blacks across the country. Although the Civil Rights movement was mainly a Southern phenomenon, the non-violent ideology and integrationist focus of the movement became according to historians Floyd W. Hayes and Francis A. C. Kiene as "sources of increasing frustration…

based organization again, with no more than twenty-seven active members and by 1982 the party came to an end. I am arguing that due to Huey Newton taking on much of the Panthers power within the organization and the governments covert operation ‘COINTELPRO’, launched between 1968 and 1971, both had a huge influence in the quietus of the Black Panther Party…

The Black Panther Party for Self¬ Defense was founded in October 1966, in Oakland, California by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton. The party originated in California and it is now one of the first organizations in United States history to militantly struggle for ethnic minority and working-class emancipation. The black panther party was the largest black revolutionary organization that has ever been known to man. Strongly influenced by Malcolm X, the Panther Party’s intentions were to have…

The Civil Rights Movement began in the 60s as a backlash against racially unfair treatment and attack on the oppressive forces that caused this treatment. Through sit-ins, marches and many other form of peaceful protest the Civil rights moment was able to grow and prosper. The Civil Rights movement evolved the most between the March on Washington in 1963 and protest against the Rodney King verdict in 1992 as a result of the creation and growth of the Black Panther Party, a group that attacked…

gender-based issues deters from addressing the perceived larger issue of racism, “A lot of black men said we were airing dirty laundry by talking about rape. Someone called me an agent provocateur for talking about rape and said we must be allied with COINTELPRO—Black Nationalist men also adhered to the narrative that rape happened at the hands of white men” (Ross, as told by Nelson). WOC must address sexism in their communities because true liberation cannot be achieved until all parts of WOC…

non-violently.When Martin Luther King stood up to the previously decided social hierarchy, he was able to awake an entire nation and it took years for the government to silence his cause. Malcolm X, another Civil Rights leader, fell victim to FBI CointelPro and it was due to the fact that he was able to affect change in a country where the government had previously decided the outcome. Thomas Jefferson once said, "If you want something that you've never had, you must be willing to do something…

One federal law enforcement agency that I researched was the Federal Bureau of Investigations , known as the FBI. The FBI was created on July , 26, 1908. The FBI was first known as the Bureau of Investigations, this agency did not get the name FBI, until 1935. The first employees for the FBI was 10 former secret service agents they were hired by the department of justice. By 1909, this federal law agency had 34 agents. In 1917, J. Edgar Hoover joined the FBI. During his time in the agency, he…

Maulana Karenga An African-American teacher of Africana Studies, extremist and creator, best known as the container's maker African and African-American occasion of Kwanzaa is known as Maulana Karenga. Maulana Karenga was conceived on an occupant homestead in Parsonsburg, Maryland, in 1941. At age 18, he moved to Los Angeles and got to be included operating at a profit Power development. In the 1960s, he made the African-American occasion of Kwanzaa, regarding African legacy. In 1971, he was…

During the 1940s and 1950s the threat of communism within the Hollywood film and entertainment industry was greatly overstated. During the time that the House Un-American Activities Committee was active the U.S population was in the midst of a intense anti-communism movement in response to the Cold War. The HUAC with the support of public opinion was able to question almost any individual without negative backlash. This wild questioning of anyone when linked with the close connections between…