One unexpected fringe benefit of a surveillance state is that it can make for a surprisingly comprehensive biographer. To kick off Black History Month at MuckRock, we put together a collection of all of our articles on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s forays into the lives of prominent African-Americans over the decades.
Muhammad Ali
James Baldwin
Thelma Glass
James Hood
Whitney Houston
Russell Jones
Rodney King
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Bayard Rustin
Tupac Shakur
Christopher Wallace
Eric Williams
Malcolm X
Browse a collection of our completed FBI requests on the project page, and if you feel like we’re missing somebody, let us know and we’ll file for it on your behalf.
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