Identifier

FBI_00082

Title

FBI Surveillance of MLK’s Travel Due to Civil Rights and Suspected Communist Ties

Creator

Atlanta FBI Field Office

Description

This document contains flight logs and travel details of Martin Luther King Jr. and his associates as they travel to Michigan, Illinois, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. Monitoring occurred due to MLK’s prominence in the Civil Rights Movement and suspected connections to communism.

Source

100-HQ-3-Subfile116-Serial661, 18 December 1963 to 19 December 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

Bernard Lee

SCLC

MLK

CPUSA

Wyatt Tee Walker

Ralph Abernathy

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Date

1963-12-18 to 1963-12-19

Location

Detroit, MI

Rights

Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act