These attacks draw upon earlier American history. The civil rights movement is an example of the suppression of speech and political violence against Black thought leaders: [2/6]
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#TruthBeTold, the understanding that America gave its Black citizens a bad check — the now-celebrated words of Martin Luther King Jr — is a version of history deemed "divisive" and banned under contemporary right wing attacks on free speech. [1/6]pic.twitter.com/R6OP1lJiLd
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In the 1960’s, the FBI surveilled Black civil rights movement leaders and activists through its Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO), as crafted by J. Edgar Hoover, who once labeled Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. as “the most dangerous man in America."
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Hoover directed COINTELPRO agents to “prevent the rise of a Black Messiah” by any means necessary: surveilling their actions and speech, jailing them, or setting them up for violent attacks and even assassination. [4/6]
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The movement’s ideas — to unite multiracial, intergenerational communities to organize collectively for civil rights — were labeled “seditious” precisely because they unified people across race, gender, class and region throughout America. [5/6]
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We see similar attacks now, undermining civil dissent, labelling diversity, equity & anti-racist training as “un-American.” For more history, read our
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