Identifier

FBI_00142

Title

Letter Regarding Rumored Black Migration to Detroit

Creator

Cole, George H.

Description

An FBI source sent a letter to the Office of the President to alert him, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the FBI, of a rumored recruitment of 50,000 Black workers from the South to General Motors and Ford as employees. The letter writer feared that this recruitment could start a race war given that there were many whites who were already hostile to Black folk.

Source

100-HQ-135-Serial115, 27 February 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

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

Level 3 Tag

Federal Bureau of Investigation

United Workers of America

Office of the President

Date

1943-02-27

Location

Detroit, MI

Rights

Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act