Identifier

FBI_00049

Title

Surveilled Conversation Between Gus Hall & Hyman Lumer

Creator

Chicago FBI Field Office

Description

This document highlights the use of a highly protected informant reporting on a conversation between CPUSA leaders Gus Hall and Hyman Lumer in New York City. The discussion covered key topics related to the Civil Rights Movement and the CPUSA, including the perspectives of Black members, the March on Washington, and membership trends in California.

Source

100-HQ-3-Subfile116-Section7-NR1, 9 September 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

Gus Hall

Hyman Lumer

James E. Jackson

A. Philip Randolph

Ben Davis

Dorothy Healey

Helen Winter

Philip Bart

Gil Green

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Date

1963-09-09

Location

New York, NY

Rights

Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act