{"value"=>"<p>Subseries groups several brief and early NFCL endeavors; later and long-term activities have their own subseries. \"The Menace of the F.B.I\". (1940) was an emergency group chaired by Franz Boas, concerned with the \"unlawful actions and operations of the Federal Bureau of Investigations\" and its \"apparently ominous development into a secret political police force\". The two files in question include letters by Boas and extensive memoranda on illegal wiretapping, unreasonable searches and seizures, excessive use of grand jury powers, arrests without warrant, and unlawful investigations of \"peaceful and non-criminal activities based upon economic and political opinions\" disliked by F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoover. \"Races of Mankind\" was a monograph authored by Ruth Benedict and Gene Weltfish that was suppressed by the U.S.O. organization in 1944. Said file includes correspondence with Weltfish and with New York University professor Henry Pratt Fairchild who questioned the \"monogenetic\" assumptions in the pamphlet.</p>"}