Surveillance of Tommy Dennis and Michigan CPUSA Activities (2)
- Identifier
- FBI_00092
- Title
- Surveillance of Tommy Dennis and Michigan CPUSA Activities (2)
- Creator
- Detroit FBI Field Office
- Description
- This document covers informant surveillance of Tommy Dennis, organizational secretary of the Michigan District Communist Party, during a conference on August 1, 1964. It details Dennis’s speech on the Civil Rights Movement and the CPUSA’s efforts to restore its influence, as well as conference proposals on organizing a Civil Rights Conference, training political candidates on CPUSA positions, and recruitment strategies.
- Source
- 100-HQ-3-Subfile116-Serial2181, 12 August 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
- Tommy Dennis
- CPUSA
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Date
- 1964-08-12
- Location
- Detroit, MI
- Rights
- Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act
- Item sets
- Detroit FBI Files-Black Freedom
