Sull'Autore
Nota di disambiguazione:
(eng) Do not combine Jeffrey Haas and Jeffrey J. Haas. They are different authors.
Opere di Jeffrey Haas
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1942-09-18
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Istruzione
- University of Michigan (AB ∙ English)
University of Chicago Law School (JD|1967) - Organizzazioni
- People's Law Office [founder]
- Nota di disambiguazione
- Do not combine Jeffrey Haas and Jeffrey J. Haas. They are different authors.
Utenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 1
- Utenti
- 191
- Popolarità
- #114,255
- Voto
- 4.3
- Recensioni
- 6
- ISBN
- 8
To pinpoint potential troublemakers and neutralize them
- FBI COINTELPRO memo on black militancy cited in RATM, "Wake Up"
"Prevent the rise of a "messiah" who could unify, and electrify, the militant black nationalist movement."
- same memo
If you ever had a Rage Against The Machine phase, you may have wondered how much of Zack's rapped denunciation of the establishment's murderousness was true. This book gives a good insight into what Hoover's FBI, the Chicago police and city judiciary were capable of in the 1960s: committing, abetting and covering up the murder of a Black Panther leader. It's a very impressive story of a young lawyer just out of law school going through one hell of a struggle all the way to the Illinois Supreme Court to get some measure of justice: pushing through obstruction of document discovery, imprisonment for contempt, official deceptiveness, and more.
Black Power was an evident temptation in the late 1960s for civil rights activists disillusioned by the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. and by the way he had lost establishment support when he turned his attention to poverty and war. But any establishment that took decades to side with the basic civil rights of African Americans, and was moved to action only when their TVs showed peaceful protestors being attacked in the streets, was hardly likely to permit the rise of an organised black movement for armed self-defence and political and economic self-determination such as the Black Panthers. The agenda of raising African Americans to equal citizenship, control over resources and personal opportunity still to this day awaits an effective strategy for overcoming or defeating the fear and hostility that such a radical cause evokes.… (altro)