RECORD
F.B. Eyes Digital Archive: FBI Files on African American Authors and Literary Institutions Obtained through the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
- 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 Collection:
- https://fbeyes.wustl.edu/
- Creator:
- William Maxwell; Humanities Digital Workshop at WashU; WashU Libraries
- Date Created:
- 2024
- 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
- Language:
- eng
- Location:
- St. Louis, MO
- Latitude:
- 38.64864274
- Longitude:
- -90.30819691
- Institution:
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Collection Type:
- Digital Archive Digital Scholarship Project
- CollectionBuilder Template:
- CB-CSV