Chapter 6: The Belly of the Beast, Part I
The FBI targets the Weather Underground, and a split in the Black Panther Party gives rise to a new, more militant organization - the Black Liberation Army.
For more of the story, check out:
- The Weather Underground, Prairie Fire: The Politics Of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism (1974)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation, The Declassified FBI Files on the Weather Underground Organization (2010)
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