Identifier

FBI_00036

Title

Surveillance of Communist Party Negro Leadership's Proposal for a Northern Christrain Leadership Group (3)

Creator

Detroit FBI Field Office

Description

Follow-up report regarding Benjamin J. Davis' visit to Detroit for where the purported purpose of meeting with Communist Leadership was to create a Northern Christian Leadership group. No details from informants suggest this was discussed.

Source

100-HQ-3-Subfile116-Serial512, 15 November 1963, Federal Bureau of Investigation Records, "Communist Party, USA - Negro Question", Detroit FBI Files - Black Freedom.

Theme

Criminalization and Resistance, Community and Resistance

Type

Government Records

Level 1 Tag

Activism

Detroit

Government Correspondence

Surveillance

COINTELPRO

Level 2 Tag

COINTELPRO - CPUSA Negro Question

Informants

Infiltration

Level 3 Tag

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Martin Luther King Jr.

Date

1963-11-15

Location

Detroit, MI

Rights

Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act