COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
This collection features raw materials from the 2010 Freedom Archives production COINTELPRO 101.
Documents
![Kathleen Cleaver COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage](images/thumbnails//8546.jpg)
Call Number: C 10 130Collection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Kathleen Cleaver became involved in the civil rights movement. In 1967 she left college to work full-time for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The following year she met Eldridge Cleaver and moved from New York to San Francisco to join the Black Panther Party (BPP).
Kathleen Cleaver became the BPP's National Communications Secretary and helped to organize the campaign to get Huey Newton released from prison. She was also the first woman to be appointed to the Black Panthers Central Committee.
Kathleen continues to struggle for civil and human rights and teaches law at Emory University.
![Muhammad Ahmad COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage](images/thumbnails//8551.jpg)
Call Number: C 10 135Collection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Muhammad Ahmad (formerly Max Stanford Jr.) was a pivotal figure within the Black Liberation Movement and struggle for Black Power in the 1960s and 70s; notably, he was the national field chairman of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) and a direct target of J. Edgar Hoover's COINTELPRO. He is a professor at Temple University.
![Akinyele Umoja COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage](images/thumbnails//8552.jpg)
Call Number: C 10 136Collection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Educator and activist - worked with the New Afrikan Independence Movement and founding member of New Afrikan Peoples Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement.