The FBI's RACON RACIAL CONDITIONS IN THE UNITED STATES DURING WORLD WAR II Compiled and Edited by Robert A. Hill Northeastern University Press BOSTON
EDITORIAL NOTE xiii A NOTE ON SOURCES xvii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xviii INTRODUCTION / SEQION 1 Survey of Racial Conditions In the United States 73 (SECRET) I. INTRODUCTION 75 II. NORTHERN SECTION OF THE UNITED STATES 77 Albany Field Division 79 Baltimore Field Division 67 Boston Field Division 66 Buffalo Field Division 87 Chicago Field Division 90 Cincinnati Field Division 101 Cleveland Field Division 105 Detroit Field Division / / / Grand Rapids Field Division 155 Indianapolis Field Division 158 Milwaukee Field Division 160 Newark Field Division 166 New Haven Field Division 169 New York Field Division / 72 Philadelphia Field Division 211 Pittsburgh Field Division 232 Providence Field Division 236
St. Louis Field Division 237 Springfield Field Division 241 Washington Field Division 243 III. SOUTHERN SECTION OF THE UNITED STATES 254 Atlanta Field Division 256 Birmingham Field Division 262 Charlotte Field Division 276 Dallas Field Division 283 El Paso Field Division 285 Houston Field Division 287 Huntington Field Division 292 Jackson Field Division 294 Knoxville Field Division 300 Little Rock Field Division 301 Louisville Field Division 305 Memphis Field Division 308 Miami Field Division 3/0 New Orleans Field Division 3/5 Norfolk Field Division 336 Oklahoma City Field Division 340 Richmond Field Division 343 San Antonio Field Division 347 Savannah Field Division 350 IV. WESTERN SECTION OF THE UNITED STATES 357 Butte Field Division 357 Denver Field Division 358 Des Moines Field Division 36/ Kansas City Field Division 362 Omaha Field Division 364 Phoenix Field Division 366 St. Paul Field Division 367 Salt Lake City Field Division 369 Sioux Falls Field Division 370
V. PACIFIC COAST SECTION OF THE UNITED STATES 372 Los Angeles Field Division 373 Portland Field Division 382 San Diego Field Division 385 San Francisco Field Division 388 Seattle Field Division 396 VI. AREAS OUTSIDE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 402 Honolulu Field Division 402 Juneau, Alaska 404 San Juan Field Division 404 VII. CONCLUSION 406 SECTION 2 Appendix (SECRET) 415 I. THE NEGRO PRESS 4/9 The Afro-American 421 Amsterdam Star News and People's Voice, New York City 429 The Black Dispatch 430 Chicago Defender 433 Michigan Chronicle 436 The Pittsburgh Courier 438 II. PROGRAMS CONCERNING RACE RELATIONS 443 Southern Conference on Race Relations 443 The People's Committee Meeting 449 National Negro Council 45 / III. UNAFFILIATED OR INDEPENDENT NEGRO ORGANIZATIONS 452 National Association For The Advancement of Colored People 452 National Urban League 457 Re: March on Washington Movement 459
IV. THE NEGRO AND NATIONAL SOCIALISM 498 V. JAPANESE INFLUENCE AND ACTIVITY AMONG THE AMERICAN NEGROES 507 Development of Our Own 514 Pacific Movement of the Eastern World 5/7 Peace Movement of Ethiopia 523 Ethiopian Pacific Movement 530 Moorish Science Temple of America, Incorporated 535 Colored American National Organization, aka, Washington Park Forum and the Brotherhood of Liberty for the Black People of America 541 Allah Temple of Islam, aka, The Moslems 544 African Moslem Welfare Society of America 545 Addeynue Allahe Universal Arabic Association 547 International Reassemble of the Church of Freedom League, Incorporated 547 Miscellaneous Organizations 549 VI. THE COMMUNIST PARTY AND NEGROES 550 VII. COMMUNIST PARTY FRONT ORGANIZATIONS AND NEGROES 581 American Negro Labor Congress 582 League of Struggle for Negro Rights 586 National Negro Congress 594 Re: Negro Labor Victory Committee 611 ADDENDUM: FBI DOCUMENTS 62/ 22 June 1942 Letter from J. Edgar Hoover 622 27 August 1942 Internal memorandum from section chief J. K.Mumford 624 27 August 1942 Letter from J. Edgar Hoover 625 17 September 1942 Internal memorandum from section chief J. K. Mumford 626 3 October 1942 Internal memorandum from J. Edgar Hoover 633 October 1942 Bureau Bulletin No. 108, Series 1942, Section (G) 635 5 August 1943 Letter from J. Edgar Hoover 636
13 September 1943 Letter from J. Edgar Hoover 637 14 September 1943 Internal memorandum from Security Division head D. M. Ladd 638 ABBREVIATIONS 66/ CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS 663 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 726 INDEX 745