Gale Archives Unbound: Law, Politics, and Radical Studies

Consists of historical documents from the British National Archives that offer perspectives on politics, diplomacy and every day life in the German-occupied countries. 

Allows you to explore the internal organization, personnel and activities of some of the most prominent American radical groups and their movements to change government and society.

Between the early 1920s and early 1980s, the Justice Department and its Federal Bureau of Investigation engaged in widespread investigation of those deemed politically suspect. Black Americans of all political persuasions were subject to federal scrutiny, harassment and prosecution. The FBI enlisted black 'confidential special informants' to infiltrate a variety of organizations. Hundreds of documents in this collection were originated by such operatives. The reports provide a wealth of detail on 'Negro' radicals and their organizations that can be found nowhere else.

Amiri Baraka is the author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music history and criticism, a poet icon and revolutionary political activist. As a young man in the 1960s, Baraka (then known as LeRoi Jones) galvanized a second Black Renaissance, the Black Arts movement. The ideological and political transformations of Amiri Baraka from a Beat poet in Greenwich Village into a militant political activist in Harlem and Newark was paradigmatic for the Black Revolt of the 1960s.