Identifier

FBI_00157

Title

Detroit Response to Emmet Till

Creator

Detroit FBI Field Office

Description

Memo discussing the situation in Detroit during the Emmet Till trial, in which Black children were supposedly attacking white children when asked about the trial. The Detroit Police Department was contacted and would be sending officers and cruisers to local schools to quell violence, as white parents said they would “handle the matter themselves” if the police did not intervene.

Source

100-HQ-135-Serial332, 10 November 1955, 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

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

Emmett Till

Date

1955-11-10

Location

Detroit, MI

Rights

Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act