Identifier

FBI_00048

Title

Surveillance of Freedom March in Downriver Detroit

Creator

Detroit FBI Field Office

Description

Informants disclosing a” Freedom March” that took place in the suburbs of Detroit (River Rouge & Ecorse). The demonstration was attended by roughly 900 individuals and was to protest discrimination in the Downriver region of Detroit. Speakers included Charles Evers & Rev. Abraham Lincoln Woods

Source

100-HQ-3-Subfile116-Section4-NR1, 19 August 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

Race

Racism

Racialization

Social Movements

Surveillance

Government Correspondence

Activism

COINTELPRO

Level 2 Tag

Civil Rights Movement

Black Power

Racial Unrest

Profiling

Informants

Infiltration

Abuse by Government

Race & Ethnic Identity

COINTELPRO - CPUSA Negro Question

Level 3 Tag

CPUSA

NAACP

Charles Evers

Abraham Lincoln Woods

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Date

1963-08-19

Location

Detroit, MI

Rights

Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act