Ongoing Surveillance of Benjamin J. Davis and Communist Party Activities (January – March 1964)
- Identifier
- FBI_00056
- Title
- Ongoing Surveillance of Benjamin J. Davis and Communist Party Activities (January – March 1964)
- Creator
- Detroit FBI Field Office
- Description
- This document details sustained FBI surveillance of Benjamin J. Davis in Detroit during January and February 1964, alongside monitoring of Communist Party meetings focused on racial tensions, the civil rights movement, and the party’s involvement in these issues.
- Source
- 100-HQ-3-Subfile116-Section29-NR1, 8 May 1964, 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
- Herbert Aptheker
- Benjamin J. Davis
- Carl Winter
- GOAL
- Tommy (Thomas) Dennis
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Date
- 1964-05-08
- Location
- Detroit, MI
- Rights
- Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act
- Item sets
- Detroit FBI Files-Black Freedom
