Taking Back Our Stolen History
1960s
1960s

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover on Communists: “They have infiltrated every conceivable sphere of activity: …T.V. and motion picture; church, …educational…; the press…”

FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover, gave this testimony on 6 March 1961 before the House Committee on Appropriations regarding the communist conspiracy: “They have infiltrated …

John F. Kennedy Presidential Inaugural Address: “Ask Not What Your Country Can Do for You; Ask What You Can Do for Your Country!”

[Taking the oath of Office] Vice President Johnson, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, reverend clergy, fellow citizens: We …

Eisenhower “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.”

Eisenhower’s farewell address (sometimes referred to as “Eisenhower’s farewell address to the nation”) was the final public speech of Dwight D. Eisenhower as the 34th …

The CIA-Directed Murder of Patrice Lumumba, the First Elected Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo who Sought Independence from Belgium

US plans to eliminate Patrice Lumumba went as high as the President himself. On August 25, 1960, a subcommittee of the National Security Council known …

Ruby Bridges Becomes the First African-American Child to Attend an All-White Public Elementary School in the American South.

Ruby Bridges (born September 8, 1954) was six when she became the first African-American child to integrate a white Southern elementary school on November 14, …