Hoover’s Response Regarding “Race Riot”
- Identifier
- FBI_00151
- Title
- Hoover’s Response Regarding “Race Riot”
- Creator
- Hoover, J. Edgar (FBI)
- Description
- Response directly from J. Edgar Hoover to Stanley Burnshaw, who had requested his, and the FBI’s, opinion of the book “Race Riot” written by Alfred Lee and Norman Humphrey and discussing the Detroit Race Riot of 1943.
- Source
- 100-HQ-135-Serial175, 30 October 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, Media Reports
- Level 1 Tag
- Surveillance
- Government Correspondence
- "Race
- Racism
- Racialization"
- COINTELPRO
- Resistance
- Detroit
- Level 2 Tag
- Racial Unrest
- Profiling
- Informants
- Infiltration
- Abuse by Government
- Race & Ethnic Identity
- COINTELPRO - Foreign Inspired Agitation Among American Negroes
- Racial Inequality
- Level 3 Tag
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- J. Edgar Hoover
- Alfred McClung Lee
- Norman Daymond Humphrey
- Stanley Burnshaw
- Date
- 1943-10-30
- Location
- Washington, D.C.
- Rights
- Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act
- Item sets
- Detroit FBI Files-Black Freedom
