Documentary Description
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
African-American 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 1960’s and early 1970’s.
Combining declassified documents, interviews, rare footage and
exhaustive research, it investigates the government’s 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”?
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