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Archives Unbound: Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984
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- Description
- Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984 is a fulltext, full image database of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation's previously classified files on prominent African Americans and
African-American organizations. The documents total approximately 88,000 pages and include published
material such as newspaper clippings, transcripts of public meetings and speeches, and reports of
special agents, which sometimes refer to information provided by confidential informants. Subjects
of the investigations include Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, Paul Robeson, Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP,
the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Black Panther Party, and the Highland Folk
School. This Archives Unbound collection can be crossed search with another collection, Federal Response to
Radicalism in the 1960s in Advanced Search.
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- Dates covered
- 1920-1984.
- Updating frequency
- Database is complete.
- Sources
- Declassified files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- Type of coverage
- Full image, with full text searching.
- Print counterpart or related resources
- All of the individual files were originally published as microfilm sets. Rutgers Libraries own a
number of these sets.
- Producer/content provider
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Vendor/electronic presentation provider
- Gale Cengage Learning
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