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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director J. Edgar Hoover issues his annual report, stating that attacks on police have increased, specifically identifying the Black Panthers.
1971 (Jan 6)
Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Director J. Edgar Hoover issued his annual report in which he stated that the number of racial incidents in schools had declined during the year, but attacks on police by Blacks had increased. The FBI chief said racial disorders in secondary schools declined from 299 in the first months of the 1969-70 year to 160 in the corresponding period of the new term. Hoover warned, however, that "the number of incidents of racial disorder that did occur in our cities and in secondary schools, along with the many unwarranted attacks on police, strongly indicated that we are far from the realization of racial harmony in the nation." Hoover said there was a marked increase in attacks on police officers by persons identifying themselves as Black Panthers. He said such persons were responsible for the deaths of six police officers and the wounding of twenty-two others and that in the previous two years, five police officers were killed and forty-two wounded under such circumstances.
References:
- • Hornsby, Alton. Chronology of African-American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.