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Grassroots civil rights & social activism : FBI files on Benjamin J. Davis, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Archives unbound.
- Archives unbound
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Davis, Benjamin J. (Benjamin Jefferson), 1903-1964.
- Davis, Benjamin J.
- United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- United States.
- African American communists--United States--Sources.
- African American communists.
- Communism--United States--Sources.
- Communism.
- African Americans--Civil rights--United States--Sources.
- African Americans.
- Civil rights workers--United States--Sources.
- Civil rights workers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (71,934 images).
- Other Title:
- Grassroots Civil Rights and Social Activism: FBI Files on Benjamin J. Davis, Jr.
- FBI files on Benjamin J. Davis, Jr.
- Place of Publication:
- [Farmington Hills, Mich.] : Gale Cengage Learning, 2013.
- Summary:
- The FBI files on Benjamin J. Davis, Jr. that make up this collection were assembled by Dr. Gerald Horne, author of Black Liberation/Red Scare: Ben Davis and the Communist Party, and the breadth of issues addressed by these records is astounding. Davis served as a leader in local, district, and national leadership bodies of the Communist Party USA and thus concerned himself with a broad range of organizational, political, and theoretical questions. There is news of grassroots organizing successes and failures, minutes from meetings held on all the levels on which Davis engaged, and reports from member-informers on all the major political and theoretical debates.
- Notes:
- Date range of documents: 1941-1990.
- Source library: Personal Collection of Gerald Horne.
- Description based on online resource; title from collection description page (viewed on April 1, 2014).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Herman V. Ames Fund.
- OCLC:
- 878432770
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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