Title: Federal surveillance of African Americans
Description: Contains reproductions of hundreds of FBI files documenting the federal scrutiny, harassment, and prosecution to which black Americans of all political persuasions were subjected. Many of the documents originated with black "confidential special informants" enlisted by the FBI to infiltrate a variety of organizations. The collection provides detailed coverage of: "Negro radicals" and their organizations; the FBI's infringement of First Amendment freedoms; and its preoccupation with black radicalism between 1920 and 1984.
Subjects: Archives, African Americans, Sources, Legal status, laws, History, Civil rights, Radicalism, United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States, Black Panther Party, Committee for Public Justice (U.S.), Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.), Ku Klux Klan (1915- ), Moorish Science Temple of America, Inc Muslim Mosque, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Negro Congress (U.S.), Organization of Afro-American Unity, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.), Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Places: United States
People: A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979), Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908-1972), Elijah Muhammad (1897-1975), Viola Liuzzo (1925-1965), Malcolm X (1925-1965), Lemuel Penn, Paul Robeson (1898-1976), Jesse Jackson (1941-), Roy Wilkins (1901-1981), Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993), W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963), Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)
Time periods: 20th century