Talk by William Kunstler on how the FBI has been used to destroy the unity of African-Americans. Despite political gains made by African-Americans during Reconstruction, by 1878 all 800 elected African-Americans had been driven from office. The reactivation of the Black community following the 1965 Voting Rights Act has, however, been nullified through a FBI plan called Frumenschen. Kunstler traces how the plan was instituted, and how various government officials have been forced to leave office in disgrace because of their association with this project.|THE F.B.I. AND CIVIL RIGHTS / William Kunstler| produced by Samori Marksman. - SERIES: President Clinton and the National Security State| no. 2 - Talk by William Kunstler on how the FBI has been used to destroy the unity of African-Americans. Despite political gains made by African-Americans during Reconstruction, by 1878 all 800 elected African-Americans had been driven from office. The reactivation of the Black community following the 1965 Voting Rights Act has, however, been nullified through a FBI plan called Frumenschen. Kunstler traces how the plan was instituted, and how various government officials have been forced to leave office in disgrace because of their association with this project. - BROADCAST: WBAI, 1992.
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