The FBI and the civil rights movement: the investigations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. (1953-1968)

• Grant number: 18/20225-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: January 01, 2019
• End date: December 31, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of America
• Principal Investigator: Mary Anne Junqueira
• Grantee: João Paulo Martins Faria
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Our aim is to identify and analyse the representations of the black population and black leaders, particularly Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., made by the FBI in the 1950s and 1960s. We will try to understand the justifications FBI employees built regarding the investigations of those two individuals and how they described those activists. Finally, we will analyse the associations between racial activism and communism that the Bureau made in those decades. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

FARIA, João Paulo Martins. FBI, the Civil Rights Movement and the Cold War: the Investigations on Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. (1953-1968). 2021. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.