This week's open threads will highlight the other "unsung" heroes of the Civil Rights movement. We have always talked about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks. There were others, black and white who were involved in securing civil rights for African-Americans. This week's thread will talk about these people. Vernon Ferdinand Dahmer, … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: The Unsung Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement
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Saturday Open Thread: COINTELPRO and The War On Black America
The Ghetto Informant Program (GIP) was an intelligence-gathering operation run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1967–1973. Its official purpose was to collect information pertaining to riots and civil unrest. Through GIP, the FBI used more than 7000 people to infiltrate poor black communities in the United States. The program was targeted at those likely to … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: COINTELPRO and The War On Black America
Friday Open Thread: COINTELPRO and The War On Black America
When University of Baltimore professor Joshua Clark Davis began research for his 2017 book “From Head Shops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs,” he no idea he would come across a document detailing just how insidious Hoover's reign was over African American communities across the nation. While the extent of COINTELPRO's involvement with Civil Rights … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: COINTELPRO and The War On Black America
Monday Open Thread: COINTELPRO and The War On Black America
Good Morning POU! This week we will look at the various tactics of the FBI in disrupting Black America through its infamous COINTELPRO program. Centralized operations under COINTELPRO officially began in August 1956 with a program designed to "increase factionalism, cause disruption and win defections" inside the Communist Party U.S.A. (CPUSA). Tactics included anonymous … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: COINTELPRO and The War On Black America
Friday Open Thread: Lawyers in the Civil Rights Movement
Samuel Wilbert Tucker (June 18, 1913 – October 19, 1990) was an American lawyer and a cooperating attorney with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). As a founding partner in the Richmond, Virginia firm of Hill, Tucker and Marsh, he is best remembered for one of his several civil rights cases before the Supreme Court of the United States: Green … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Lawyers in the Civil Rights Movement