Hoover’s Investigation into Black “Pushing Groups”
- Identifier
- FBI_00159
- Title
- Hoover’s Investigation into Black “Pushing Groups”
- Creator
- Hoover, J. Edgar (FBI)
- Description
- Series of memos sent from J. Edgar Hoover to various contacts in U.S. government alerting them of supposed “Pushing Clubs” that were popping up in cities across the United States. A confidential informant alerted Hoover that groups of Black folks would shadow a “pusher”, someone that would push whites, in hopes they would respond and incite a race riots. These individuals were allegedly paid by another group that had yet to be determined. Hoover was looking into the matter, but was unable to verify the accuracy of these claims and was requesting additional details if they arose.
- Source
- 100-HQ-135-Serials186-89, 8 March 1944, 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
- J. Edgar Hoover
- U.S. Attorney General
- Francis Biddle
- U.S. War Department
- Major General Clayton Bissell
- U.S. Army
- Jonathan W. Daniels
- Date
- 1944-03-08
- Location
- Washington, D.C.
- Rights
- Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act
- Item sets
- Detroit FBI Files-Black Freedom
