FBI Headquarters Directs Increased Surveillance of Civil Rights and Communist Leaders
- Identifier
- FBI_00079
- Title
- FBI Headquarters Directs Increased Surveillance of Civil Rights and Communist Leaders
- Creator
- Hoover, J. Edgar (FBI)
- Description
- Memo from FBI headquarters criticizes the Detroit Field Office for insufficient surveillance of prominent communist and Black civil rights leaders during Benjamin J. Davis’s visit on November 8–10, 1963. The headquarters emphasizes the need for better coverage, citing concerns over the Communist Party’s interest in influencing the sensitive Civil Rights Movement and advancing its agenda.
- Source
- 100-HQ-3-Subfile116-Serial544, 29 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
- Benjamin J. Davis
- CPUSA
- Carl Winter
- J. Edgar Hoover
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Date
- 1963-11-29
- Location
- Washington, D.C.
- Rights
- Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act
- Item sets
- Detroit FBI Files-Black Freedom
