Contains government and personal papers addressing U.S. politics during the 1960s and 1970s. Topics include civil rights, the Cold War, social movements, and the political scandals that culminated in Watergate.
Includes FBI, Department of Justice, and White House files documenting federal responses to the civil rights movement. Key topics include segregation, voting rights, civil rights legislation, and actions of prominent civil rights organizations, illustrating the role of federal agencies in addressing racial inequality.
Adds to the federal government records collection, featuring newly uncovered documents from agencies like the Department of Justice and FBI on civil rights, segregation, and racial activism.
The 44,000-page FBI case file documents on finding King's assassin including background information on Dr. King's social activism.
The assassination on April 4, 1968, of Martin Luther King, Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, triggered a massive manhunt culminating in the arrest of James Earl Ray. The 44,000-page case file of the Federal Bureau of Investigation documents the bureau's role in finding Ray and obtaining his conviction. The file also includes background information amassed by the FBI on Dr. King's social activism. This archive is of particular interest to students of the civil rights movement and of the continuing controversy surrounding Dr. King's murder.
FBI files on surveillance conducted on Black Americans, civil rights organizations, and other institutions.
Includes FBI files relating to: A. Philip Randolph, Adam Clayton Powell, the Atlanta Child Murders (ATKID), the Black Panther Party (North Carolina), the Committee for Public Justice, Elijah Muhammed, the Highlander Folk School, the Klu Klux Klan Murder of Viola Liuzzo, Malcolm X, MIBURN (Mississippi Burning), the Moorish Science Temple of America, the Murder of Lemuel Penn, the Muslim Mosque, Inc., the NAACP, the National Negro Congress, the Organization of Afro-American Unity, Paul Robeson, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Roy Wilkins, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Thurgood Marshall, W.E.B. Du Bois, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Marcus Garvey
Presents personal manuscripts, correspondence, and official records from Confederate and Union military leaders. The documents explore military strategies, battlefield operations, and the daily experiences of soldiers and officers during the Civil War. It offers a comparative perspective on leadership and decision-making on both sides of the conflict.
