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Chica­go Black Pan­ther Par­ty Chief of Secu­ri­ty William O’Neal was being paid by the FBI.

Hampton’s bodyguard was a government informant. Mar­tin Luther King, Jr., Stoke­ly Carmichael and H. Accord­ing to the Commission’s confiscated doc­u­ments, Hoover had direct­ed all of the bureau’s offices to ​“expose, dis­rupt, mis­di­rect, dis­cred­it and oth­er­wise neu­tral­ize” African-Amer­i­can orga­ni­za­tions and lead­ers, includ­ing the South­ern Chris­t­ian Lead­er­ship Con­fer­ence, the Stu­dent Non­vi­o­lent Coor­di­nat­ing Com­mit­tee, Nation of Islam, Dr. Times reported in 2006, ​“ inves­ti­gate and dis­rupt dis­si­dent polit­i­cal groups in the Unit­ed States.“ĬOIN­TEL­PRO was carried out under J. This was a secret coun­ter­in­tel­li­gence pro­gram cre­at­ed to, as the L.A. They found more than 1,000 doc­u­ments regarding the Panther raid. The Com­mis­sion exposed the FBI’s ​“COIN­TEL­PRO” pro­gram. In March 1971, the first evi­dence to sup­port Rush’s alle­ga­tion was revealed when a group of anony­mous activists who called them­selves the ​Cit­i­zens’ Com­mis­sion to Inves­ti­gate the FBI broke into a small FBI office in Media, Pa. Edgar Hoover and the Fed­er­al Bureau of Inves­ti­ga­tion were respon­si­ble for the raid,” In These Times reported. “In the wake of the raid, Illi­nois BPP Min­is­ter of Defense Bob­by Rush stood on the steps of the bul­let-rid­dled BPP apart­ment and declared that J. From the beginning, though there was little proof at the time, other Panthers knew the government was involved. The FBI orchestrated the assassinations and massive cover-up. In short, Hampton was a charismatic leader with a vision of marrying the social gospel of King to the militant nationalism of Malcolm X,” Counterpunch reported. Jesse Jackson would later adopt the term as the name of his organization and the theme of his ground-breaking presidential campaigns of 19. “A self-described ‘revolutionary,’ Hampton envisioned the future of the civil rights movement as a ‘rainbow coalition’ of white, Black, brown, yellow, and red people.

He later came to prominence as a leader of the Black Panther Party. He got his start as an organizer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Hampton started his activism at the age of 21 when he was an honor student from suburban Chicago. The police claimed there had been a shootout that morn­ing but the phys­i­cal evi­dence ultimately proved that in real­i­ty, the Pan­thers fired a sin­gle shot in response to approx­i­mate­ly 90 shots from the police.