FBI Alexandria archives flood (2013)

CTL-E-4272 · Event · other · 2013

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Hurricane-driven flooding of FBI archives in Alexandria, Virginia (2013), destroying hundreds of thousands of pages of civil-rights-era records, including large portions of the National Negro Labor Council HQ file and the Claude Lightfoot Chicago file.

Notes

RELP98 identity check: no such event entity in graph; unique.

Relationships

Lost Organizational Records — related to
The 2013 Alexandria flood destroyed hundreds of thousands of pages of FBI civil-rights-era records, the flagship disaster case of the lost-organizational-records pattern.

Sources

Gizmodo - 'Thousands Of FBI Documents About Civil Rights Era Destroyed By Flooding' (2014-08-06)

Record CTL-E-4272 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: PROVISIONAL · 1 source · 1 mapped relationship · CTL research: RELP-001, PRESERVE-001.
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