If free time beckons, and your inner civil libertarian can benefit from historical food for thought, the Reading Room for the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Freedom of Information Act is always open. Excerpts or full files kept by the agency are posted in PDF format.
Subjects include the Atlanta child murders, Josephine Baker, the Black Panther Party of Winston-Salem, N.C., W.E.B. DuBois, Wallace D. Fard, the Five Percenters, the Ku Klux Klan, Malcolm X (headquarters), Thurgood Marshall, the Mississippi Burning case, the Moorish Science Temple of America, Elijah Muhammad, Paul and Eslanda (Essie) Robeson, Jackie Robinson, Clarence 13X Smith, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Roy Wilkins and Richard Wright.
Among unposted files, subjects include: Marcus Garvey, Muslim Mosque Inc., the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (August 1923 - November 1957), the National Negro Congress, A. Phillip Randolph and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
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