Identifier

FBI_00130

Title

Race Riot (Book)

Creator

Lee, Alfred McClung & Humphrey, Daymond

Description

A full scanned copy of Alfred Lee and Daymond Humphrey’s book detailing the Detroit Race Riot and its causes in 1943. Details overcrowding, police brutality, and systematic oppression as catalysts for conflicts. Several annotations throughout this scanned copy which relate to interests of the FBI.

Source

100-HQ-135-EBF175, 26 April 1905, Federal Bureau of Investigation Records, "Foreign Inspired Agitation Among American Negroes", Detroit FBI Files - Black Freedom.

Theme

Criminalization and Resistance, Community and Resistance

Type

Government Records, Publications

Level 1 Tag

Race

Racism

Racialization

Social Movements

Activism

COINTELPRO

Detroit

Resistance

Level 2 Tag

Racial Unrest

Abuse by Government

Race & Ethnic Identity

COINTELPRO - Foreign Inspired Agitation Among American Negroes

Communism

Socialism

Marxism

Racial Inequality

Level 3 Tag

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Detroit Race Riot of 1943

Wayne State University

Alfred McClung Lee

Date

1943

Location

Detroit, MI

Rights

Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act