Medgar Evers, Martin, Malcolm, Fred Hampton, and countless others, were all victims of the FBI's and Hoover's COINTEL Program which had as its only goal to "neutralize" black resistance to "the white power structure." It succeeded spectacularly. By killing off or imprisoning black leadership, the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements shriveled up and died along with them. (An astonishing number of Black Panther Party members are still rotting away in prisons throughout this land).

The same dynamic is being played out today with the "mysterious" deaths of so many Black Lives Matter leaders and supporters.