COINTELPRO The FBIs War on Black America (1990)

Through a secret program called the Counter Intelligence Program COINTELPRO there was a concerted effort to subvert the will of the people to avoid the rise of a Black Messiah that would mobilize the AfricanAmerican community into a meaningful political force This documentary establishes historical perspective on the measures initiated by J Edgar Hoover and the FBI which aimed to discredit black political figures and forces of the late 1960s and early 1970s Combining declassified documents interviews rare footage and exhaustive research it investigates the governments role in the assassinations of Malcolm X Fred Hampton and Martin Luther King Jr Were the murders the result of this concerted effort to avoid a Black Messiah