Identifier

FBI_00153

Title

Defend America! Letter

Creator

Defend America! Protesters

Description

This is a signed letter sent to President Franklin D. Roosevelt calling for him, and the Attorney General, Francis Biddle, to take immediate action against indicted seditionists, leaders of the KKK, America First Party, and National Workers League, and all other pro-fascist groups.

Source

100-HQ-135-Serial184, , Federal Bureau of Investigation Records, "Foreign Inspired Agitation Among American Negroes", Detroit FBI Files - Black Freedom.

Theme

Criminalization and Resistance, Community and Resistance

Type

Other, Government Records

Level 1 Tag

Surveillance

Government Correspondence

"Race

Racism

Racialization"

COINTELPRO

Resistance

Activism

Advocacy Groups

Level 2 Tag

Racial Unrest

Profiling

Informants

Infiltration

Abuse by Government

Race & Ethnic Identity

COINTELPRO - Foreign Inspired Agitation Among American Negroes

Racial Inequality

Fascism

Communism

Marxism

Socialism

Level 3 Tag

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Francis Biddle

U.S. Attorney General

Ku Klux Klan

National Workers League

America First Party

Location

Washington , D.C.

Rights

Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act