Identifier

FBI_00131

Title

Survey of Racial Conditions in the United States: Section 1

Creator

Hoover, J. Edgar (FBI)

Description

61-pages from the FBI’s Survey of Racial Conditions in the United States, a collection of 1940s surveillance findings from the FBI’s 56 Field Offices, highlighting the sentiments of the Black community and Black organizations, particularly as it pertains to the nation’s war efforts and towards the U.S. The selected 61-pages pertain to Detroit and the Detroit FBI Field Offices surveillance. Surveillance targets include several suspected communists, communist front organizations, and publications. While the study was purportedly not meant to give rise to “interference” or label the Black community as “subversive”, this type of surveillance laid the groundwork for future surveillance and destabilization that occurred during COINTELPRO. Same scan as FBI_100.

Source

100-HQ-135-EBF221-Excerpt1, 1940s, 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

Level 1 Tag

Race

Racism

Racialization

Social Movements

Surveillance

Government Correspondence

Activism

COINTELPRO

Detroit

Resistance

Level 2 Tag

Racial Unrest

Profiling

Informants

Infiltration

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

Survey of Racial Conditions in the United States

J. Edgar Hoover

Sojourner Truth Housing Project

Colonel Hamtramck Housing Project

Detroit Race Riot of 1943

Date

1940s

Location

Detroit, MI

Rights

Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act