a group of peace activists broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole every document they could find.
Keith Forsyth, one of the people who broke in, explained on Democracy Now!:
I was spending as much time as I could with organizing against the war, but I had become very frustrated with legal protest. The war was escalating and not de-escalating. And I think what really pushed me over the edge was, shortly after the invasion of Cambodia, there were four students killed at Kent StateOregonianBlack Lives Matter: Oregon Justice Department Searched Social Media Hashtags Oregonian(Pearson).
For U.S. history teachers investigating Black activism of the 1950s and 1960s, one district textbook is American OdysseyAmerican OdysseyAmerican Odyssey is not alone in its omission. American Journey (Pearson), another textbook used in my school, similarly makes no mention of the program.
The only textbook in my district to mention COINTELPRO is America: A Concise History anyoneallBlack Panthers, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Congress of Racial Equality, and others; they reveal an attempt to blackmail Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.Eyes on the PrizeAmerican OdysseyBy Ursula Wolfe-Rocca