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- 4. Black Panther Party co-founder, and Boondocks character namesake. FBI sought to turn and his fellow panthers against each other by creating a prolonged paranoia and disinformation campaign.
- 6. Author and journalist, recipient of the 1954 Nobel Prize in literature, FBI surveillance fed a paranoia that led to his suicide
- 9. Chair of SNCC and member of the Black Panther Party, “bad-jacketed” by the FBI as a CIA agent, which led to his expulsion from both organizations. Relocated to Guinea for safety and changed his name.
- 10. Black nationalist activist and one time member of the Nation of Islam. The role of the FBI in his assassination is not fully known, but he was surveilled for much of his life, and the FBI was known to be involved in the coverup.
- 11. Actress, activist and 80s workout star, surveilled as part of COINTELPRO
- 14. Civil rights leader, March author and longtime Georgia representative
- 15. author of “Giovanni’s Room” and many others. The FBI’s dossier on him was 1,884 pages.
- 16. “Black Messiah,” Founder of the Rainbow Coalition, drugged and shot in his bed by police with FBI support
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- 1. Puerto Rican Independence activist assassinated by the FBI in 2005.
- 2. American Indian Movement Leader, star of Last of the Mohicans and Pocahontas. Surveilled as part of COINTELPRO
- 3. noted abolitionist scholar and activist featured in the FBI’s most wanted fugitives list, acquitted on all charges in 1972 by an all-white jury
- 5. World heavyweight champion, surveilled because of his connection to the Nation of Islam
- 7. Japanese-born artist and activist. Surveilled by the FBI for her Anti-Vietnam War sympathies. Married to 13 down
- 8. French New Wave star and Black Panther Party supporter, FBI targeting led to her miscarriage and suicide.
- 12. Ono’s husband, surveilled by the FBI for Anti-Vietnam War sympathies.
- 13. member of the Black Liberation Army and Tupac’s godmother, currently on the FBI’s most wanted list and living in Cuba