The Reconstruction era was a period in American history following the American Civil War (1861–1865); it lasted from 1865 to 1877 & marked a significant chapter in the history of civ...
1,864 viewsRead the book: COINTELPRO (syllabic abbreviation derived from Counter Intelligence Program) (1956–1971) was a series of covert and illegal[1][2] projects conducted by the United States Feder...
1,358 viewsMurder in Mississippi is a 1990 television film which dramatized the last weeks of civil rights activists Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney,...
1,389 viewsPBS Documentary Titled - Egalite for All: Toussaint Louverture & The Haitian Revolution The Haitian Revolution (French: Révolution haïtienne [ʁevɔlysjɔ̃ ajisjɛ̃n]), was a s...
2,443 viewsDonate On this dayDec 08, 1969 Los Angeles Police Attack Black Panthers in Violent Raid Image | UPI Telephoto On December 8, 1969, four days after the assassination of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark i...
2,226 viewsIn 1969, the Chicago Black Panther Party, notably led by the charismatic Fred Hampton, began to form alliances across lines of race and ethnicity with other community-based movements in the city, incl...
1,567 viewsThe Murder of Fred Hampton is a 1971 documentary film which began with the intention of portraying Fred Hampton and the Illinois Black Panther Party. During the film's production, Hampton was...
1,581 viewsLords of the Revolution: The Black Panthers Documentary The story of The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
1,545 viewsCo-produced/Co-directed by Deb Ellis and Denis Meuller (co-directors of HOWARD ZINN: YOU CAN'T BE NEUTRAL ON A MOVING TRAIN and PEACE HAS NO BORDERS), THE FBI'S WAR ON BLACK AMERICA lo...
2,112 viewsThe Tulsa race riot was a large-scale, racially motivated pogrom on May 31 and June 1, 1921, in which a group of whites attacked the black community of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Greenwood District, the wea...
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