Collection Timeline

1921 to 1971

1921
FBI documents studying Claude McKay.

1925
FBI documents studying Langston Hughes.

1940
FBI documents studying Claude McKay.
FBI documents studying Ray Durem.
FBI documents studying Lloyd Brown.

1941
FBI documents studying Louise Thompson Patterson.
FBI documents studying John O. Killens.
FBI documents studying Sterling Brown.
FBI documents studying Gwendolyn Bennett.

1942
FBI documents studying Richard Wright.
FBI documents studying George S. Schuyler.
FBI documents studying J. A. Rogers.
FBI documents studying W.E.B. Du Bois.
FBI documents studying Negro Digest/Black World.

1943
FBI documents studying Walter White.

1944
A standing Theodore Ward, a Black man with a mustache, wears a trench coat and fedora while holding a cigarette.
FBI documents studying Chester Himes.
FBI documents studying Katherine Dunham.
FBI documents studying Frank Marshall Davis.

1945
FBI documents studying Georgia Douglas Johnson.

1947
FBI documents studying William Pickens.
FBI documents studying Ebony Magazine.

1949
FBI documents studying Andy Razaf.
FBI documents studying Lance Jeffers.

1950
FBI documents studying Bob Kaufman.
FBI documents studying Harold Cruse.
FBI documents studying Ralph Ellison.
FBI documents studying Shirley Graham Du Bois.

1951
FBI documents studying William Gardner Smith.
FBI documents studying Willard Motley.
FBI documents studying Ollie Harrington.
FBI documents studying Alice Childress.

1952
FBI documents studying Charles S. Johnson.
FBI documents studying Lorraine Hansberry.

1953
FBI documents studying J. Saunders Redding.
FBI documents studying E. Franklin Frazier.
FBI documents studying Sterling Brown.

1954
FBI documents studying Julian Mayfield.
FBI documents studying Hoyt Fuller.
FBI documents studying Lonne Elder III.

1955
FBI documents studying Calvin Hernton.
FBI documents studying Frank London Brown.

1957
FBI documents studying Walter White.
FBI documents studying Alice Childress.
FBI documents studying Frank London Brown.
FBI documents studying Amiri Baraka.

1958
FBI documents studying Lucille Clifton.
FBI documents studying James Baldwin.

1961
FBI documents studying E. Franklin Frazier.
FBI documents studying St. Clair Drake.

1966
A standing Theodore Ward, a Black man with a mustache, wears a trench coat and fedora while holding a cigarette.
FBI documents studying Dudley Randall.
FBI documents studying Larry P. Neal.
FBI documents studying Pauli Murray.
FBI documents studying Lance Jeffers.

1971
FBI documents studying St. Clair Drake.
FBI documents studying Amiri Baraka.
FBI documents studying The Black Scholar.