Identifier

FBI_00106

Title

COINTELPRO File on the Reorganization of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers

Creator

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

Description

Collection of files discussing the reformation of the LRBW in the middle of the 1970s and creation of the Black Unity Conference.

Source

157-HQ-12523-04, August 1972 to April 1982, 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, 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

African Peoples Party

Black Unity Conference

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Date

August 1972 to April 1982

Location

Detroit, MI; Cairo, IL; Cincinnati, OH; Springfield, IL

Rights

Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act