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Black Panther Movement: The Black Panthers Movement

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The Black Panthers Movement was very effective in helping empower the black community but lacked large scale assurance due to the fact that the FBI thought of this movement as a terrorist organization. This social movement has been very effective in addressing the social problem or racism and police brutality. It did show how the police would act when they don’t believe in an organization. They discriminate and try to run the organization down and out. If the police or FBI want a stop to things, they will do whatever is possible to end it, including illegal behavior. The creation of the Counter Intelligence Program was solely to destroy and disrupt the Black Panther Movement. Although the Black Panther Movement had high profile enemies and

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