J. Edgar Hoover

as the best decade. If there was a time in this world where rebels were involved in society, it was during the 1960s. The main civil rights movement group was known as the Black Panthers. The Black Panthers were such a threat that FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover said, "the greatest threat to the internal security of the United States."( www.marxists.org). This group fought off the police to get the point of theirs out to the public. It was known as the Ten Point Program. It numbered off what they wanted

prevalent in the 60’s, the Black Panther Party was more focused on changing the living conditions for people in their communities than on changing the nation’s racial inclination. The influence of the Black Panther Party is indisputable. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover

On The Duty of Civil Disobedience, written by Henry David Thoreau, explains that civil disobedience is the act of standing for your beliefs even though they are against the law. Thoreau goes on to say that the government (because it is ruled by the majority) is not always right for everyone especially the individual and the minority. Over the course of American history, there have been many different groups formed for the purpose of civil disobedience. The two that I am going to focus on are the

The conflicts met between the Civil Rights Movement protesters and the white people of the South were incredibly gruesome. While peace and equality for African Americans was the driving force of the protests, violence and inhuman resistance was the force for the white people. In the March Trilogy Books, written by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, and in the movie Selma, written by Paul Webb and directed by Ava DuVernay, we are given a glimpse of these troubling times during the 1960’s. The tone was

between 1956 and 1971 marked some of the FBI’s most fanatical persecution of dissidents. Here, against the backdrop of the Cold War, Vietnam War, lingering fears of communism, the Civil Rights movement, and a surge in KKK activity, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover implemented

On the morning of June 8th, I arrived to work having no idea what the next week would have in store for me. It is that morning that I received my final offer for the internship program, and would need to leave for the D.C. area within the next 3 days. After close of business on the 9th, I headed home to pack, and by the Sunday morning I was beginning my 15 hour drive to the east coast. I had no idea where I was going to stay for the summer, where I was going to work, or what I was going to do

During his career, He made more enemies. Hoffa was known to be one of the most powerful men in the country at the time and still. Of course because of his union leadership, many working Americans considered Hoffa as their hero. But it is believed that one of his enemies may have had something to do with his disappearance in 1975. During that year on July 30th. Hoffa left Detroit for a meeting with a local crime figure and a mob-connected union leader that was from New Jersey. The met at a restaurant

For this assignment I chose to watch Bones. I watched one of the earlier episodes that were made in 2005. Bones is a little different compared to the CSI shows because it is actually based on a team of forensics who have a particular study in anthropology and archaeology. The episodes are based on them helping FBI agents figure out criminal cases. The episode I watched was about a possible terrorist attack on the senator and many other colleges. At the beginning of the episode a man who was working

This article takes an inside and out investigation of The Black Panther Party as a particular illustration for progressive patriotism and breaks down altogether the positive commitments they made and in addition the negative parts of the gathering. Jessica C. Harris, who was fixated on the historical backdrop of the organization, did research and composed the paper. This exhert (pages from 409-421) is from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 86, No. 3. (Summer, 2001). The entire paper epitomizes

Commission had been so resolute and did not make any endeavor to examine other conceivable hypotheses and guaranteeing leads. It was likewise brought to light that none of the commission parts had any investigative encounters and totally depended on Hoover and the FBI for their proof. In any case, the Commissions greatest mix-up was in dismissing key onlookers whose confirmations they considered to be incongruent, conflicting, or were in spite of their solitary maniacal professional killer hypothesis