PROJECT
F.B. Eyes Digital Archive: FBI Files on African American Authors and Literary Institutions Obtained through the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Item Info
- Title:
- F.B. Eyes Digital Archive: FBI Files on African American Authors and Literary Institutions Obtained through the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
- Link to Project:
- https://fbeyes.wustl.edu/
- Description:
- The F.B. Eyes Digital Archive makes available for the first time a collection of 51 FBI files on prominent African American authors and literary institutions, many of them unearthed through William J. Maxwell's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for his 2015 monograph, F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature. First developed as an Omeka exhibit with Jaydee Lee, Paulo Loonin, and Shannon Davis, WashU Libraries staff, Elizabeth Schwartz and Mitch Sumner, migrated the project to CollectionBuilder and Internet Archive for longer term access.
- Subjects:
- FBI FOIA Internet Archive Black literature
- Date Created:
- 2024
- Creator:
- William Maxwell; Humanities Digital Workshop at WashU; WashU Libraries
- Institution:
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Location:
- St. Louis, MO
- Latitude:
- 38.64864274
- Longitude:
- -90.30819691
- Language:
- eng
- CollectionBuilder Template:
- CB-CSV
- Collection Type:
- Digital Archive Digital Scholarship Project
- Institution Type:
- Academic Library
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "F.B. Eyes Digital Archive: FBI Files on African American Authors and Literary Institutions Obtained through the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)", CollectionBuilder Examples, CollectionBuilder
- Reference Link:
- https://collectionbuilder.github.io/cb-examples/items/example0153.html