Federal surveillance of Afro-Americans (1917-1925): World War, the Red Scare, and the Garvey Movement

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Title

Federal surveillance of Afro-Americans (1917-1925): World War, the Red Scare, and the Garvey Movement, 1917-1925 (inclusive), [microform]

Physical Description

25 reels.

Language

English

Notes

Microfilm. Frederick, Maryland, University Publications of America. 1985. 25 reels, 35mm.

Originals are in the National Archives and Records Administration; Federal Record Centers in Maryland, Texas, and New Jersey; and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Summary

The records consist of surveillance files from the Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation (forerunner of the FBI), the Army's Military Intelligence Division, and other government agencies. The files focus on black political activity, the treatment of black servicemen, and prominent black radicals and dissenters.

Format

Archives or Manuscripts / Microforms

Added to Catalog

June 01, 2002

Subjects

Garvey, Marcus.

African Americans > Politics and government.

African Americans > Suffrage.

African Americans > History > 1870-1964.

World War, 1914-1918 > African Americans.

Radicals.

United States > Race relations.