Identifier

FBI_00103

Title

COINTELPRO File on the League of Revolutionary Black Workers & Detroit Union Movements #1

Creator

Detroit FBI Field Office & Hoover, J. Edgar (FBI)

Description

This comprehensive report documents FBI surveillance of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM), Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM), and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers (LRBW), detailing their roles, key figures, events, and objectives. The report covers protests and picketing at several Detroit factories, led by figures like General Gordon Baker, Jr., and tracks union formations at Dodge, Eldon Avenue, Ford River, Jefferson Ave, United Parcel Service, and others. It examines the groups’ advocacy against racism and white capitalism, their calls to action, and their efforts to unite with other groups of color such as the Brown Berets. The report relies on informant disclosures, union newsletters, newspapers (like Inner City Voice and The Black Panther), protest posters, and communications from FBI Director Hoover regarding heightened surveillance.

Source

157-HQ-12523-01, 1 July 1968 to 21 August 1969, Federal Bureau of Investigation Records, "League of Revolutionary Black Workers (LRBW)", Detroit FBI Files - Black Freedom.

Theme

Criminalization and Resistance, Community and Resistance

Type

Government Records, Media Reports, Publications

Level 1 Tag

Race

Racism

Racialization

Social Movements

Surveillance

Government Correspondence

Activism

COINTELPRO

Detroit

Resistance

Level 2 Tag

Black Power

Racial Unrest

Profiling

Informants

Infiltration

Abuse by Government

Labor Movement

Race & Ethnic Identity

COINTELPRO - League of Revolutionary Black Workers

Communism

Socialism

Marxism

Racial Inequality

Unionization

Level 3 Tag

League of Revolutionary Black Workers

Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement

General Gordon Baker Jr.

Revolutionary Action Movement

Robert F. Williams

Inner City Voice

Black Panther Party

SNCC

Stokely Carmichael

H. Rap Brown

J. Edgar Hoover

Students for a Democratic Society

Mao Tse-Tung

United Auto Workers

Luke Tripp Jr.

Kenneth John Watson

Eldon Avenue Revolutionary Union Movement

Ford Revolutionary Union Movement

CPUSA

Tommy Dennis

New Left Notes

Inter-Religious Foundation for Community Organizations

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Jefferson Avenue Revolutionary Movement

United Parcel Revolutionary Union Movement

Detroit News Revolutionary Union Movement

Date

1968-07-01 to 1969-08-21

Location

Detroit, MI & Washington, D.C.

Rights

Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act