Identifier

FBI_00091

Title

FBI Report on CPUSA Involvement and Surveillance During Freedom Summer

Creator

Baumgardner, F.J. (FBI)

Description

FBI report examining the Communist Party USA’s potential involvement in the Mississippi Summer Project (Freedom Summer), documenting surveillance of key CPUSA and Civil Rights leaders, participants from various cities, and ordinary citizens. The report concludes with calls for the Bureau to broadly monitor individuals planning to participate in the Freedom Summer. This report was to be forwarded to Walter W. Jenkins, Special Assistant to the U.S. President.

Source

100-HQ-3-Subfile116-Serial1689, 30 June 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

Council of Federated Organizations

NAACP

CORE

SNCC

SCLC

CPUSA

MLK

Hyman Lumer

Stanley Levison

Clarence Jones

National Lawyers Guild

Walter Jenkins

Mississippi Summer Project

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Date

1964-06-30

Location

Washington, D.C.

Rights

Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act