Finding aids:
http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/acluofnc/
http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/acluofnc.pdf
http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/acluofnc/pdf
[0078] American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California records, 1900-2000 (bulk 1934-2000), MS 3580
Location: California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-4014
Description: Comprising correspondence, minutes, policy statements, annual reports, legal documents, attorneys' working notes, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and other printed material created or collected by the ACLU-NC, these records document the establishment and activities of the northern California branch, including and especially its efforts to protect and extend individual liberties in California. Files on Nazi Party, Far right, Ku Klux Klan, Nazis, Nazi groups, Skokie case (1977), Mankind United, Operation Abolition, American Liberty League, California Crusaders, John Birch Society, and Nazism and fascism.
Websites with information:
https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/122642406
Finding aids:
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt009nf073/admin/
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt009nf073/entire_text/
[0079] The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, Cleveland Chapter records. 1958-1978, MS 5047
Location: Western Reserve Historical Society, 10825 East Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio 44106
Description: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), an organization formed to "defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties" guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States was first established in the in 1920 by Roger Baldwin and a group of associates formerly of the National Civil Liberties Bureau. In the years after World War I, a fear of Communism known as "The Red Scare" was overtaking America. In 1919 and 1920 Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer began having those considered left wing radicals arrested and deported without regard to their constitutionally protected rights against unlawful search and seizure (the Palmer raids). The formation of the ACLU became the outgrowth of opposition to what became known as "The Palmer Raids" and other such violations of civil liberties. The Cleveland chapter of the union was founded in 1922 and remained active throughout the 1920s and 1930s focusing on cases concerning unionization, Communism, and religious freedom. The chapter closed during World War II, but was revived in 1950 with the advent of McCarthyism. Series III: National American Civil Liberties Union, 1963-1977; undated. Sub-series G: General Subject Files, 1966-1972, contains a file on school desegregation.
Finding aids:
http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/OCLWHi0171.xml&query=&brand=default
http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/OCLWHi0171.xml&doc.view=printead;chunk.id=0
[0080] American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio records, MSS 253, 1951-1982
Location: The Ohio History Connection, 800 E. 17th Ave., Columbus, OH 43211
Description: The American Civil Liberties Union (A.C.L.U.) was created by Roger N. Baldwin in 1920 as an outgrowth of the National Civil Liberties Bureau. The Bureau handled civil liberties cases involving freedom of speech, press, association, and conscience during World War I. An Ohio chapter of the A.C.L.U. known as the Youngstown Workers' Defense League, was formed in 1920, and chapters in other cities followed. In ca. 1954 the statewide affiliate was sanctioned by the national A.C.L.U., and in 1971 the A.C.L.U. of Ohio was incorporated. Records consist of correspondence, minutes, and newsletters documenting the ideology and administration of the Ohio ACLU, its chapters, and the national ACLU. Includes administration files of the Ohio office, copies of minutes and memoranda from the national organization, court cases of interest to the Ohio affiliate, and reference files on numerous topics. Series II, National ACLU Files, contains files on the Women's Rights Project, 1972-1975, concerning A.C.L.U.'s campaigns for the Equal Rights Amendment and abortion rights. Series IV. Reference Files, dates from 1951 to 1982 and is arranged alphabetically by subject. The files contain material relating to topics of interest to the Ohio A.C.L.U. and include clippings, printed material, memoranda, and correspondence. Files on abortion; civil rights legislation; closed shop, union shop, right-to-work laws; federal loyalty-security programs, n.d.; Fund for the Republic; House Un-American Activities Committee; housing integration material; integration; internal security; Jenner-Butler Bill; John Birch Society; The Ku Klux Klan of Ohio; loyalty and security; McCarran Act; Operation Abolition (film controversy concerning U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) allegations of Communist influence in the May 1969 student riots at a San Francisco HUAC hearing), 1957-1962, n.d.; race; Rockwell case (defense of George Lincoln Rockwell of the American Nazi Party in his attempt to distribute anti-Semitic literature in Washington, D.C.), 1960-1961; Fred Schwarz and the anti-Communist school, 1962; sterilization; and ultra right.
Note:
The Ohio History Connection was formerly known as the Ohio Historical Society. On the name change, see "Ohio Historical Society Changes Its Name To Ohio History Connection," http://www.ohiohistory.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/ohio-history-connection-announcement.
Finding aids:
http://www.ohiomemory.org/cdm/ref/collection/aids/id/1007
http://www.ohiomemory.org/cdm/ref/collection/aids/id/979
[0081] American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California records, ca. 1935-, Collection Number 900
Location: Special Collections, Manuscripts Division, Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Description: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), established in 1920, originally began as the American Union Against Militarism in 1915, later becoming the National Civil Liberties Bureau in 1917. The ACLU of Southern California was established in Los Angeles in 1924. Collection consists of legal, educational, and organizational files of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California. Includes minutes, correspondence, memoranda, clippings, case files, and briefs. Files on Anti-Mexican-Americans, Anti-Negro, Anti-Semitism, Attacks, Critics, Anti-ACLU, Pro-ACLU 1960-1963, Attacks on Supreme Court, Bible reading in schools, Civil Rights Act (1957), Communism, Communist Control Act of 1954, De facto school segregation, Joel Dvorman - Orange County, Group Research Report, Alger Hiss, J.E. Hoover, House Committee on Un-American Activities Cases - "Operation Abolition" and "Operation Correction," Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (Walter-McCarran Act), Internal Security Act (1950), Interracial marriage, Ku Klux Klan, Loyalty oaths, McCarthy, Matusow, Organized labor - Attack on, Lee Harvey Oswald, Public housing - Gwinn Amendment, Racism, Max Rafferty, Right to work, School Integration, School Prayer Decision [Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962), prohibiting the use of a Regent's prescribed prayer in New York public schools], Sumner, Mississippi - Till killing, Taft-Hartley Act, Taft-Hartley non-communist oaths, Subversive Activities Control Board, Tokyo Rose, Ultra Right organizations, and Women's rights. Files on Right groups include "Americans, On Guard," American Legion, Daughters of American Colonists, Gerald L.K. Smith, The Cross and the Flag, Keep America, Fifield, Merchants and Manufacturers, Minute Men (Gen. Holdridge), Neo-fascist groups (30's), Women of the Pacific, Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, and Rockwell. Newspaper clippings on Attacks, critiques, anti-ACLU and HUAC-operation abolition.
Finding aids:
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt9c60151m/dsc/
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt9c60151m/entire_text/
[0082] American Civil Liberties Union of Washington Records, circa 1942-1996, Coll. 1177
Location: Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries, BOX 352900, Seattle, WA 98195-2900
Description: