Federal surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984.

Contains reproductions of hundreds of FBI files documenting the federal scrutiny, harassment, and prosecution to which black Americans of all political persuasions were subjected. Many of the documents originated with black "confidential special informants" enlisted by the FBI to infiltrate a variet...

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Corporate Author: United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Language:English
Published: Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale/Cengage Learning, [2010], ©2010.
Series:Archives unbound.
Subjects:
Randolph, A. Philip > (Asa Philip), > 1889-1979 > Archives.
Powell, Adam Clayton, > Jr., > 1908-1972 > Archives.
Elijah Muhammad, > 1897-1975 > Archives.
Liuzzo, Viola, > 1925-1965 > Archives.
X, Malcolm, > 1925-1965 > Archives.
Penn, Lemuel > Archives.
Robeson, Paul, > 1898-1976 > Archives.
Jackson, Jesse, > 1941- > Archives.
Wilkins, Roy, > 1901-1981 > Archives.
Marshall, Thurgood, > 1908-1993 > Archives.
Du Bois, W. E. B. > (William Edward Burghardt), > 1868-1963 > Archives.
Garvey, Marcus, > 1887-1940 > Archives.
United States. > Federal Bureau of Investigation > Archives.
Black Panther Party > Archives.
Committee for Public Justice (U.S.) > Archives.
Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.) > Archives.
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) > Archives.
Moorish Science Temple of America > Archives.
Muslim Mosque, Inc. > Archives.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People > Archives.
National Negro Congress (U.S.) > Archives.
Organization of Afro-American Unity > Archives.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) > Archives.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference > Archives.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > History > 20th century > Sources.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century > Sources.
Radicalism > United States > History > 20th century > Sources.
Electronic reference sources.
Genre:
Archives.
Sources.
Electronic reference sources.
Online Access:
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Physical Description:1 online resource (88,021 images).
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • COINTELPRO: Black Nationalist "Hate" Groups
  • FBI file on A. Philip Randolph
  • FBI File on Adam Clayton Powell
  • FBI file on the Atlanta child murders (ATKID)
  • FBI file on the Black Panther Party, North Carolina
  • FBI file on the Committee for Public Justice
  • FBI file on Elijah Muhammed
  • FBI file on the Highlander Folk School
  • FBI file on the Ku Klux Klan murder of Viola Liuzzo
  • FBI file on Malcolm X
  • FBI file : MIBURN (Mississippi Burning)
  • FBI file on the Moorish Science Temple of America
  • FBI File on the Murder of Lemuel Penn
  • FBI file on Muslim Mosque, Inc.
  • FBI file on the NAACP
  • FBI file on the National Negro Congress
  • FBI file on the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU)
  • FBI file on Paul Robeson
  • FBI file on the Reverend Jesse Jackson
  • FBI file on Roy Wilkins
  • FBI file on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
  • FBI file on Thurgood Marshall
  • FBI file on W.E.B. Du Bois
  • FBI investigation file on Communist infiltration of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  • FBI surveillance file: Malcolm X
  • FBI investigation file on Marcus Garvey.