Guide To The Microfilm Edition Of The Fbi File On The America First Committee

The America First Committee, an anti-interventionist group formed in the early 1940s, advocated isolation from the war in Europe. This file, which covers the groups̕ activity from 1937 to 1941, contains newspaper accounts, America First literature, speeches, letters, reports, and press releases. The group was investigated for possible communist infiltration. The collection is organized chronologically with newspaper articles as a subseries.