Category : Politics

Politics

Charles Rangel

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Known in his Harlem, New York, district as the “Lion of Lenox Avenue,” Representative Charles B. Rangel rose to become the first African-American chairman of...
Civil RightsHistoryPolitics

Force Acts

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Congress enacted three statutes in 1870 and 1871 to protect the right of blacks to vote in the southern states and to suppress anti-reconstruction terrorism....
Politics

Robert Francis Kennedy

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Robert Francis Kennedy, commonly known as RFK, was born on November 20, 1925, in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was the seventh of nine children born to...
HistoryPolitics

J. Edgar Hoover

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J. Edgar Hoover joined the Justice Department in 1917 and was named director of the Department’s Bureau of Investigation in 1924. When the Bureau reorganized...
HistoryPolitics

COINTELPRO

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The FBI ran a domestic counter-intelligence program (COINTELPRO) that quickly evolved from a legitimate effort to protect national security from hostile foreign threats into an...