Identifier

FBI_00112

Title

Communist Influence in Racial Matters Internal Report #1 (September–October 1964)

Creator

Detroit FBI Field Office

Description

198-page report includes FBI documentation of deleted files and court-ordered redactions, along with lists of targets and informants—featuring organizations and individuals such as SNCC, NAACP, CORE, Freedom Now Party, TULC, NALC, John Conyers, Carl Winter, Ben Davis, and Coleman Young, among many others. The bulk of the report consists of highly detailed surveillance on civil rights and “communist-labeled” activism in Detroit and Southeast Michigan, covering people, organizations, protests, conferences, press releases, and informant statements from September through October 1964. The collection demonstrates the breadth and intensity of COINTELPRO operations in the region.

Source

100-HQ-442529-Serial287, 30 October 1964, Federal Bureau of Investigation Records, "Communist Influence in Racial Matters", 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

Civil Rights Movement

Anti-War Movement

Black Power

Racial Unrest

Profiling

Informants

Infiltration

Abuse by Government

Race & Ethnic Identity

COINTELPRO – Communist Influence in Racial Matters

Communism

Socialism

Marxism

Racial Inequality

Level 3 Tag

Federal Bureau of Investigation

NALC

TULC

SNCC

UHURU

NAACP

GOAL

CORE

Socialist Workers Party

CPUSA

John Conyers Jr.

University of Michigan

Carl Winter

Benjamin J. Davis

Coleman Young

Rev. Albert Cleage

Claude Lightfoot

Herbert Aptheker

Gus Hall

Date

1964-10-30

Location

Detroit, MI

Rights

Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act