Identifier

FBI_00152

Title

Response to Race Riot Book & Foreign Influence in the Black Community

Creator

Starke, J.J. (FBI) & Ladnier, A.S.

Description

The first half of this document consists of internal discussions within the FBI regarding the book Race Riot written by Alfred Lee & Norman Humphrey. References to the FBI and FBI interests within the book are listed throughout the memo. A suggestion of sending a letter to the publisher, who was asking for the FBI’s comment on the book, declining reaction was put forth. The second half of this document is a letter written by an Alabama resident that there is foreign influence in the Black community, hence repeated race riots. The writer also makes several claims that Black folk are not the equals of whites and should be put in their place, something that the U.S. Government, and the FBI, should play a role in.

Source

100-HQ-135-Serial176, 20 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, Personal Narratives

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

Fascism

Level 3 Tag

Federal Bureau of Investigation

J. Edgar Hoover

Alfred McClung Lee

Norman Daymond Humphrey

Stanley Burnshaw

Detroit Police Department

Francis Biddle

U.S. Attorney General

Date

1943-10-20

Location

Washington, D.C. & Point Clear, AL

Rights

Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act