Identifier

FBI_00141

Title

Black Detroit Delegation Protesting Wartime Discrimination

Creator

Welch, F.L. (FBI)

Description

Series of memos and newspaper clippings detailing a meeting that was to be held between Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the War Manpower Commission, and a delegation of Black leaders from Detroit protesting the cancellation of hearings by the Fair Employment Practice Committee regarding the discrimination against the Black community in the war industries. While a meeting was originally scheduled, McNutt refused to meet with the group, leading to protests.

Source

100-HQ-135-Serial100-101, 15 January 1943 to 21 January 1943, 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

Surveillance

Government Correspondence

Activism

COINTELPRO

Detroit

Resistance

Level 2 Tag

Racial Unrest

Informants

Infiltration

Profiling

Abuse by Government

Labor Movement

Race & Ethnic Identity

COINTELPRO - Foreign Inspired Agitation Among American Negroes

Racial Inequality

Communism

Marxism

Socialism

Level 3 Tag

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Paul V. McNutt

A. Phillip Randolph

Fair Employment Practices Committee

Ferdinand Smith

National Maritime Union

March on Washington

James B. Carey

Congress of Industrial Organizations

War Manpower Commission

B. F. McLaurin

American Federation of Labor

Adam Clayton Powell

Date

1943-01-15 to 1943-01-21

Location

Detroit, MI & Washington D.C.

Rights

Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act