The FBI’s COINTELPRO targeted Black/African leaders and civil rights organizations for decades. Listen as Dr. Carol François and Kourtney Square, her niece, reprise an episode exploring the FBI's efforts to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize" individuals or groups deemed subversive. They’ll examine aspects of the Martin Luther King, Jr. FBI file and how it was intended to undermine and destroy him and his movement. Want more, take our course Systemic Racism: See it, Say it, Confront it at www.whyaretheysoangry.com and find us anywhere at https://linktr.ee/WATSA

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Citations

1971, documentary produced and co-written by Johanna Hamilton https://www.1971film.com/

“Court overseeing national security surveillance finds FBI routinely doesn’t observe rules,” Zachary Cohen and Evan Perez, CNN, September 6, 2020.

“FBI tracked King's every move,” Jen Christensen, CNN,

https://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/31/mlk.fbi.conspiracy/

“Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),”  The Stanford University Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/federal-bureau-investigation-fbi

“Finidngs on MLK Assassination,” National Archives, https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/part-2e.html#hoover