James Lowen's War At Home

While many activists movements rose up, like Black Panthers, Brown Beret, and Yellow Power, people who are against, specifically whites, also made their movement to manipulate these rising groups of activist. In War at Home by Brian Glick, he discussed the Counterintelligence Program or also known as COINTELPRO that was made to destroy minorities hope for change and equality. COINTELPRO was made by the FBI, and was led by William C. Sullivan. Though, while the nation is investigating about it people who are involved in COINTELPRO are being shut, including Sullivan. In their investigation they found four methods how the COINTELPRO works. These are: (1) Infiltration, that discredit and disrupt political activists were its goal is to scare potential supporters, (2) Psychological Warfare from the Outside, were FBI forge information about group meetings through phone calls and flyers, and spread misinformations, (3) Harassment Through the Legal System, were FBI and police abused the legal system to harass activist and make them appear to be criminals, and (4) Extragel Force and Violence, that threatened supporters of the Civil Rights Movements and other activist to disrupt their movements. These methods was used by

He examined twelve textbook and stated that “Two of the twelve textbooks I studied were "inquiry" textbooks, assembled from primary sources… The ten narrative textbooks in my sample continue to pay overwhelming attention to the actions of the executive branch of the federal government.” Basically, all these textbooks does not really portray the history of US. And imply that the balance of power has not changed. It excluded its participation in state-sponsored terrorism, and just showed how America is a heroic, wonderful country. Thus, ruining the real history of US and the way people look at the