“Tapped My Cell and the Phone in the Basement”

During the Civil Rights Movement, there were several different hypotheses about the correct way from African Americans to earn gain civil equality with Caucasians. Each hypothesis, therefore, had their own separate following, their own leaders, and their own method of getting their point across. Whether one was involved in SNCC, the nonviolent movement, the Nation of Islam, or the Black Panthers, the main goal of equality and humane treatment was at the forefront. Many groups started to make major waves in the social structure that stabilized America for so long. Rebellions and major city destruction brought out the worst in both blacks and whites. The peaceful era of Ike Eisenhower playing golf and Leave it to Beaver was over. There was a revolution on the rise. Unfortunately, like in any other revolution, there is always an effort from the ruling class to purge the agitators from the system which they put into place. In the case of the Civil Rights Movement, the FBI, along with the p...