Know Your Caribbean on Instagram: "Puerto Rico & African Americans: A History of Solidarity for centuries. 1848–1873 - United Against Slavery: Before slavery was abolished in Puerto Rico in 1873, free Black Puerto Ricans and enslaved Africans rebelled against Spanish rule. 1940s–1960s - Civil Rights in Solidarity As Puerto Ricans migrated to New York and Chicago, they joined the U.S. Civil Rights Movement alongside African Americans. Puerto Rican activists marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Party for Socialism & Liberation on Instagram: "In the 50s and 60s, during the height of the Civil Rights and Black Liberation movements, the FBI and the US ruling class launched anti-democratic campaigns like McCarthyism and COINTELPRO to dismantle revolutionary movements. As part of the 2024 Summer School hosted by @peoplesforumnyc, Eugene Puryear elaborated on the roots of this surveillance operation and its connections to the repression our movements for justice experience today."