Identifier

FBI_00058

Title

Informant Report on the Mississippi Project and the National Lawyers Guild

Creator

Detroit FBI Field Office

Description

This document features details from an informant’s furnished letter and newsletter outlining the Mississippi Project, which recruited students, teachers, and legal advisors to support disenfranchised Black Americans in the South through legal counsel, voter registration, and school integration. The report concludes with claims that the National Lawyers Guild is a communist front.

Source

100-HQ-3-Subfile116-Section34-NR1, 28 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, Publications

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

National Lawyers Guild

Wayne State University

Committee on Un-American Activities

CPUSA

Committee for Legal Assistance in the South

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Date

1964-05-28

Location

Detroit, MI

Rights

Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act