Chapter 21 questions
Chapter 21 questions
1.Watch the Black Panther Party video Power!. [Williams] See “FBI Pledges to Neutralize Black Nationalist Organizations” (652-Williams) and “FBI Expands Its Counterintelligence Program” (658). How did COINTELPRO contribute to the decline of the BPP? What does this program reveal about the role and tactics of the federal government?
2.Read “In the Name of the Law: The 1967 Shooting of Huey Newton and Law Enforcements‟ Permissive Environment” (660). According to Williams, what social programs did the BPP promote? What was the permissive environment that law enforcement, at the local and national levels, helped to cultivate?
