COINTELPRO - The Break-in that Exposed FBI Surveillance on Civil Rights Activists
Thu, Oct 31
|Virtual Event
The act of surveillance on everyday citizens or what the government deemed “subversives” started long before the Patriot Act was implemented. The Red Scare had neighbors turning in their friends; fear of free thought and the threat of communism turned many into homegrown spies.
Time & Location
Oct 31, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM PDT
Virtual Event
About the event
If you were an activist, especially for Civil Rights, it meant you were on the radar of one of the most dangerous lawmen in the government, J. Edgar Hoover, and the G Men Agents he infamously led during his historical tenure as director of the FBI. Bugging phones, sending revealing letters to seemingly unsuspecting wives, and observing crimes by the Klan rather than intervening, the FBI's actions are woven into the suspicion many activists have with any investigative organizations attached to law enforcement.
In 1971, a group of activists decided to do something radical to expose the agency. It broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, grabbing as many documents as possible, then disappeared into the night. Little did they know, they would find documents that would open a Pandora’s box of unethical practices in the name of keeping the country safe. In this session of History Bites, we…
Tickets
CW: COINTELPRO
From $30.00 to $150.00
Sale ended$30.00
+$0.75 ticket service fee
$50.00
+$1.25 ticket service fee
$75.00
+$1.88 ticket service fee