Identifier

FBI_00078

Title

Surveillance of CPUSA National Board Meeting: Detroit Organizing and Alliances with Civil Rights Leaders

Creator

New York FBI Field Office

Description

This document details surveillance of a CPUSA National Board Meeting, focusing on Benjamin J. Davis’s trips to Detroit and the communities plans to establish a Northern Negro Leadership Conference. A rally for the conference included prominent civil rights leaders like Adam Clayton Powell and Wyatt Tee Walker, with debate over collaborating with Black Muslims and Communists. The document also covers discussions among board members about building national connections with civil rights leaders based on growing support.

Source

100-HQ-3-Subfile116-Serial534, 18 November 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

Benjamin J. Davis

The Worker

Wyatt Tee Walker

Adam Clayton Powell

MLK

Irving Potash

Joseph Brandt

SCLC

Rev. C. L. Franklin

Nation of Islam

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Date

1963-11-18

Location

New York, NY

Rights

Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act