Identifier

FBI_00088

Title

Surveillance of Youth-Led Anti-Discrimination Protest in Detroit

Creator

Detroit FBI Field Office

Description

Document contains information on a picketing demonstration that occurred outside of the Banner Supermarket in Detroit on February 6th, 1964. This demonstration was led by youth and staged by the NAACP and the Barbour Community Student Movement (Barbour Junior High School) to protest discrimination. One of the undisclosed subjects of the surveillance had supposed ties to the Communist Party.

Source

100-HQ-3-Subfile116-Serial1106, 23 March 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

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

Level 3 Tag

Detroit Police Department

NAACP

Barbour Junior High School

CPUSA

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Date

1964-03-23

Location

Detroit, MI

Rights

Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act