Combined Civil Rights Committee of Gary’s Response to the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
- Identifier
- FBI_00074
- Title
- Combined Civil Rights Committee of Gary’s Response to the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
- Creator
- Detroit FBI Field Office
- Description
- This document details the formation of the Combined Civil Rights Committee of Gary, uniting 22 local organizations to fight discrimination and respond to the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. Carl Winter met with a committee member, and the group sent telegrams to key officials. Citizens, including school children, wore armbands in protest, as reported by The Worker, a communist publication.
- Source
- 100-HQ-3-Subfile116-Serial389, 23 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
- Carl Winter
- CPUSA
- Combined Civil Rights Committee of Gary
- The Worker
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Date
- 1963-09-23
- Location
- Gary, IN
- Rights
- Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act
- Item sets
- Detroit FBI Files-Black Freedom
