These five pages highlighted above contain the "Black Manifesto" where James Forman and the National Black Economic Development Conference highlighted the reparations and necessities the African Americans needed and wanted to further the development of the race in the United States.
In 1969, Forman aligned with the National Black Economic Development Conference (BEDC), and issued the “Black Manifesto,” which demanded $500 million dollars from Christian and Jewish groups in the United States as reparations for the slave trade. The FBI opened investigations against Forman and BEDC under offense codes for extortion, racketeering and civil unrest. The third series comprises COINTELPRO Reports for 1967–1968. The files are related to the Bureau’s “COINTELPRO” investigations into “Black Nationalist – Hate Groups / Internal Security,” which include information on the activities of SNCC. The files reference numerous FBI attempts to undermine the credibility of the black power movement through fabricated propaganda, “a counterintelligence maneuver aimed at exploiting the factionalism existing in the Black Panther Party"(Rosenthal Library).
This attempt to undermine the good and deserved requests of James Forman and the African American community were uncalled for as their requests were not uncalled for.
This attempt to undermine the good and deserved requests of James Forman and the African American community were uncalled for as their requests were not uncalled for.