There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.
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The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.
A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.
In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.
The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.
By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to national security.
I think most people, when they think about the Black Panther Party, they think in very abstract, caricatured terms. They think about black fists in the air, but they don't think about the actual people, and the families, and the relationships.
If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party.
Everything I know about the FBI came from movies! Right? The idea of these kind of uptight, conservative guys whose ties are tied too tight.
Young people are so often dissed by the media.
The FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program would work hand-in-hand with police departments, literally planning attacks on Black Panther Party offices throughout the United States of America. They did this over a period of time.
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