Classification 157 (Civil Unrest) Field Office Case Files, January 1, 1957–December 31, 1978

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Classification 157 (Civil Unrest) Field Office Case Files, January 1, 1957–December 31, 1978

1957-1978

This series consists of letters, memorandums, teletypes, newspaper clippings, reports, logs, statements, notes, legal documents, interviews, transcripts, lists, court records, correspondence and other records contained in case files opened by the Indianapolis (Indiana) Field Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The records constitute investigative case files on persons, organizations, groups, or events believed by the FBI to have the potential to ignite civil unrest that might possibly require the use of Federal troops, such as planned demonstrations and protest marches. Many of the records encompass surveillance of groups considered "agitator" organizations, such as various civil rights- and socialist-oriented groups that formed in the 1960s, many of which were specifically targeted by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover for suspected Communist influence. Some material further pertains to investigations of political organizations and groups that formed on college campuses in the 1960s.

115 linear feet, 6 linear inches

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SNAC Resource ID: 11673137

National Archives at College Park

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Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998

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Stokely Carmichael was born in Trinidad and moved to New York City with his family in 1952. In 1964 he graduated from Howard University with a B.A. in Philosophy; the same year he became a field secretary of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1966 he was elected chairman of SNCC....

Bond, Horace Julian, 1940-2015

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