Identifier

FBI_00155

Title

Surveillance of Pauli Murray

Creator

FBI

Description

This is a brief memo regarding surveillance of Pauli Murray. Murray contacted the FBI about possible protection on her return trips home to North Carolina, as she always encountered “racial animosity” and was worried about experiencing violence. The Bureau then pulled her file to see what indices they already had on the Murray. The memo details previous surveillance on her and her activism.

Source

100-HQ-135-Serial274, 25 March 1946, 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

Surveillance

Government Correspondence

"Race

Racism

Racialization"

COINTELPRO

Resistance

Activism

Level 2 Tag

Racial Unrest

Profiling

Informants

Infiltration

Abuse by Government

Race & Ethnic Identity

COINTELPRO - Foreign Inspired Agitation Among American Negroes

Racial Inequality

Communism

Level 3 Tag

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Pauli Murray

CIO

Los Angeles Sentinel

March on Washington

Workers Conference League

Date

1946-03-25

Location

Washington, D.C.

Rights

Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act