Identifier

FBI_00111

Title

Index of League of Revolutionary Black Workers Leadership

Creator

Detroit FBI Field Office

Description

Index of individuals that were being surveilled by the FBI who were leader in the LRBW. Also includes the specific identifiers that the FBI used for these individuals in their communications.

Source

LRBW-File Numbers, 29 June 1971, 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

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

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Department of Justice

J. Edgar Hoover

General Gordon Baker Jr.

Charles Jesse Wooten

Luke Samuel Tripp

Kenneth John Watson

Date

1971-06-29

Location

Detroit, MI

Rights

Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act