OppressionJune 17, 1971

Nixon declares the War on Drugs

A campaign later admitted by aides to have targeted Black communities and the antiwar left.

Resources

Mass incarceration as a system of racial control.

Connections to other moments, systems, and investigations, the links rarely drawn together.

connects to (incoming)·Event
COINTELPRO and the killing of Fred Hampton
The surveillance-and-criminalization logic of COINTELPRO carried directly into the War on Drugs two years later.
part of·Thread
The War on Drugs
Nixon's 1971 declaration launched the decades-long campaign.

The surveillance-and-criminalization logic of COINTELPRO carried directly into the War on Drugs two years later.

Nixon's 1971 declaration launched the decades-long campaign.