In the case of Medgar Evers, he was a prominent NAACP field secretary, called for a new investigation into the Emmett Till Case; and was tragically killed in his driveway. The death of Evers was quickly responded to by FBI Agents, after a detailed investigation found that Byron De La Beckwith, a white segregationists and founding member of the Mississippi White Council, guilty of killing Evers. However, instead of filing for federal charges, the FBI handed the case over to state court in Jackson, Mississippi. However when three Civil Rights activists, (two white and one black) disappeared in Meridian, Mississippi the FBI prioritised the case with immediate effect. The FBI’s difference in response to both cases represents that the Bureau was stymied by a
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COINTELPRO was formed in response to frustration at the supreme court limiting the powers of the justice department, and early divide that would fester and create animosity between the three main branches of the Federal Government. COINTELPRO also provided Hoover with a legitimate reason to pursue the discrediting of domestic political organisations, in particular those in the Civil Rights movement.
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Federal response to activism was not only limited to the non-violent actions of King and the liberal left, the Federal Government also recognised the ‘threat’ of far left wing militancy in the form of the Black Panther Party (BPP). The federal response to the actions of the BPP was vast, the response was deemed upon the militancy and the disruption that the BPP caused to various facets of the social and political order. One of the federal responses to the BPP activism was to include the BPP in their COINTELPRO, although the FBI designed COINTELPRO to discredit domestic political organisations, the subversive attitude of the program included actions taken against anti-Vietnam war protestors and in particular liberation organisations such as the BPP. However in 1968 COINTELPRO
COINTELPRO was formed in response to frustration at the supreme court limiting the powers of the justice department, and early divide that would fester and create animosity between the three main branches of the Federal Government. COINTELPRO also provided Hoover with a legitimate reason to pursue the discrediting of domestic political organisations, in particular those in the Civil Rights movement.
Eighth Paragraph:
Federal response to activism was not only limited to the non-violent actions of King and the liberal left, the Federal Government also recognised the ‘threat’ of far left wing militancy in the form of the Black Panther Party (BPP). The federal response to the actions of the BPP was vast, the response was deemed upon the militancy and the disruption that the BPP caused to various facets of the social and political order. One of the federal responses to the BPP activism was to include the BPP in their COINTELPRO, although the FBI designed COINTELPRO to discredit domestic political organisations, the subversive attitude of the program included actions taken against anti-Vietnam war protestors and in particular liberation organisations such as the BPP. However in 1968 COINTELPRO