OppressionJune 17, 1971
Nixon declares the War on Drugs
A campaign later admitted by aides to have targeted Black communities and the antiwar left.
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Connections to other moments, systems, and investigations — the links rarely drawn together.
- connects to (incoming)·EventCOINTELPRO 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·ThreadThe War on Drugs
Nixon's 1971 declaration launched the decades-long campaign.