COINTELPRO was a series of covert projects conducted between 1956 and 1971 by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting America
COINTELPRO memo proposing a plan to expose the pregnancy of actress Jean Seberg, a financial supporter of the Black Panther Party, hoping to "possibly cause her embarrassment or tarnish her image with the general public". Covert campaigns to publicly discredit activists and destroy their interpersonal relationships were a common tactic used by COINTELPRO agents.
The building broken into by the Citizen's Commission to Investigate the FBI, at One Veterans Square, Media, Pennsylvania
Body of Fred Hampton, national spokesman for the Black Panther Party, who was assassinated by members of the Chicago Police Department, with the raid itself being a COINTELPRO operation.
The Black Panther Party was an American Marxist–Leninist and black power political and militant organization founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966 which was active until 1982. Between 1968
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…Party USA, anti-Vietnam War organizers, activists in the civil rights and Black power movements (e.g., Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and the Black Panther Party), student organizations such as Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the American Indian…
Original six members of the Black Panther Party (1966): Top left to right: Elbert "Big Man" Howard, Huey P. Newton (Defense Minister), Sherwin Forte, Bobby Seale (Chairman); Bottom: Reggie Forte and Little Bobby Hutton (Treasurer).
An issue of the Black Panther Party newspaper from July 1970.
Black Panther Party founders Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton standing in the street, armed with a Colt .45 and a shotgun
Black Panther convention, Lincoln Memorial, June 19, 1970