COINTELPRO targets

Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination, which most commonly affected African Americans.

John Winston Ono Lennon was an English musician, songwriter and activist. He gained global fame as the founder, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles. Lennon's songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney remains the most successful in history.

Muhammad Ali was an American professional boxer and activist. A global cultural icon, widely known by the nickname "the Greatest", he is often regarded as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time. He held the Ring magazine heavyweight title from 1964 to 1970, was the undisputed champion from 1974 to 1978, and was the WBA and Ring heavyweight champion from 1978 to 1979. In 1999, he was named Sportsman of the Century by Sports Illustrated and the Sports Personality of the Century by the BBC.

Malcolm X was an African American revolutionary and Black nationalist leader who rose from a background of poverty, family disruption, and criminal activity to a prominent figure during the civil rights movement until his assassination in 1965. He discovered the religious organization the Nation of Islam while in prison and served as its spokesperson from 1952 until 1964. He was also a vocal advocate for Black empowerment and the promotion of Islam within the African American community. A controversial figure accused of preaching violence, Malcolm X is also a celebrated figure with Black people and Muslims worldwide for his pursuit of racial justice.

Jane Seymour Fonda is an American actress and activist. Fonda's work spans several genres and over seven decades of film and television. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, eight Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for a Grammy Award and two Tony Awards. Fonda is also the recipient of various honorary awards including the Honorary Palme d'Or in 2007, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2014, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2017, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2021, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2025.

political party of Puerto Rico

The Ku Klux Klan, sometimes referred to as the Klan, is an American Protestant-led white supremacist and far-right hate group. Historians widely identify it as one of the earliest terrorist groups in the United States, citing its organized use of violence and intimidation to influence political and social conditions, particularly in the post-Civil War South. Across its three major iterations, the Klan has operated as a secret society made up of multiple affiliated organizations that used threats, assaults, and killings to advance their aims. Over its various eras, its targets included African Americans, Jews, Catholics, and immigrants.

Yoko Ono is a Japanese artist, musician, activist, and filmmaker. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking.

American political activist, scholar, and author (born 1944)

US Black power organization (1966–1982)

American actress (1938–1979)

American politician and civil rights leader (1940–2020)

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is an American civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, Emil G. Hirsch and Henry Moskowitz. Over the years, leaders of the organization have included Thurgood Marshall and Roy Wilkins. The NAACP is the largest and oldest civil rights group in America.

American activist (1941-1998)

American protest singer and songwriter (1940-1976)

Co-founder of the Black Panther Party (1942-1989)

American political activist, journalist, and convicted murderer of a police officer

American religious leader (1897-1975)

American activist (1936–1989)

Oglala Lakota activist for the rights of Native American people (1939-2012)

United States civil rights organization

Assata Olugbala Shakur was an American political activist, revolutionary, and fugitive who was a member of the Black Panther Party, and later the Black Liberation Army. In 1977, she was convicted of the first-degree murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. She escaped from prison in 1979 and was wanted by the FBI, with a $1 million reward for information leading to her capture, and an additional $1 million reward offered by the New Jersey attorney general. She was never caught and remained a fugitive for 45 years.

neo-Nazi political party in the United States founded by George Lincoln Rockwell

Jewish far-right religious-political organization in the United States, whose stated goal is to "protect Jews from antisemitism by whatever means necessary"

Quaker organization

African-American activist (1948-1969)

thumb|right|COINTELPRO memo proposing a plan to expose the pregnancy of actress Jean Seberg, a financial supporter of the [[Black Panther Party, hoping to "possibly cause her embarrassment or tarnish her image with the general public". Covert campaigns to publicly discredit activists and destroy their interpersonal relationships were a common tactic used by COINTELPRO agents.]] COINTELPRO (a syllabic abbreviation derived from Counter Intelligence Program) was a series of covert and illegal projects conducted between 1956 and 1971 by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed

co-founder of the Black Panther Party (born 1936)

American far-left militant organization, 1969–77

American activist (1935–1998)

American activist (1942–1996)

American politician (1910–2000)

African-American civil rights organization

political party in the United States

largest student-led civil rights organization during the American Civil Rights Movement

professor and activist

Black nationalist American social movement

student activist movement, defunct

activist, Marxist, author, member of the Black Panther Party, and co-founder of the Black Guerrilla Family

Puerto Rican politician and independence advocate (1891-1965)

American political activist (born 1941)

American activist (1943-2025)

American political collective

US religious movement founded in the early 20th century Noble Drew Ali

American radical activist and law professor

1960s Civil Rights Movement strategist (1936–2008)

1968 protest in the United States

USA political party (1975-)

American civil rights activist (1925–1996)

Founder of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party (1925-2010)

civil and human rights organization

American civil rights activist (1935–2021)

American feminist

American educator, activist, and FBI informant (1938–2009)

United States civil rights organization

Chicano organization in the US

American political activist (1947–2011)

American white supremacist political party

feminist organization

initiatives by inhabitants throughout the history of Puerto Rico