Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right: A Guide to Archives
Finding aids:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_4079642/
http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079642/dsc
[0065b] American Catholic Pamphlets and Parish Histories Database [pamphlet collection]
Location: Rare Books and Special Collections, Mullen Library, Room 214, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064
Description: The subject Communism includes such titles as American Bar Association, Brief on communism (Notre Dame: Ave Maria Press, 1952); Communism and the masses, by Joseph C. Davoli (New York: America Press, 1937); Communists still war on God! by Maurice S. Sheehy (Huntington, Ind.: Our Sunday Visitor, 1956); Light your lamps, by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen (Washington, D.C.: National Council of Catholic Men, 1947); Two Chinas, by Daniel Lyons, S.J. (New York, NY Twin Circle Publishing Company, 1968); Catholic front, by Edward Lodge Curran (Brooklyn: International Catholic Truth Society, 1936); Complete exposure of Russian communism, by M.D. Forrest, M.S.C. (St Paul: Radio Replies Press, 1949); Menace of Rutherfordism, by Charles P. Windle (Chicago, IL, Iconoclast Publishing Company [1920]); Red war on religion, by Clare Gerald Fenerty (Brooklyn: Tablet, 1946); Conferences on communism, by Cardinal Richard J. Cushing (Boston: Daughters of St. Paul, 1962); Relation of religion to communism, fascism and democracy, by John A. Ryan (N.p.: American Sociological Society, 1937); Why Pope Pius XI asked prayers for Russia on March 19, 1930, by Edmund A. Walsh, S.J. (New York: Catholic Near East Welfare Association, 1930); Crisis in history, by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen (St. Paul: Catechetical Guild Educational Society, 1952); Rulers of Russia. American edition, third edition, revised and enlarged, by Denis Fahey, C.S.Sp. (Royal Oak: Social Justice Publishing Co., distributors, 1940); Wolves in sheep's clothing, by George Edward Sullivan (Washington, D.C.: Sodality Union, 1937) [online at https://ia800406.us.archive.org/1/items/wolvesinsheepscl00sull/wolvesinsheepscl00sull.pdf]; Christian civilization versus Bolshevist barbarism, by M.D. Forrest, M.S.C. (Huntington, Ind.: Our Sunday Visitor, 1937); NCWC Department of Social Action, Communism in the United States (Washington, D.C.: NCWC. Department of Social Action, 1937); Spain in arms (with notes on communism), by Edward Lodge Curran (Brooklyn: International Catholic Truth Society, 1936); Church and communism, by Cardinal Richard J. Cushing (Boston: Daughters of St. Paul, 1962); Neutrality Bill - the first step towards Communism, by Charles E. Coughlin (Royal Oak, 1939); World war on God, by Victoria Booth Demarest (Huntington, Ind.: Our Sunday Visitor); Communism is un-American, by Cardinal Francis J. Spellman (New York: Constitutional Educational League, Inc., ca. 1946); American democracy vs. racism, communism, by John A. Ryan (New York: Paulist Press, 1939); Comments on communism, by Cardinal Richard J. Cushing (Boston: Daughters of St. Paul, 1959); Communism the child of socialism (Huntington, Ind.: Our Sunday Visitor, 1930?); Not Anti-Semitism but Anti-Communism, by Charles E. Coughlin (Royal Oak: Radio League of the Little Flower, 1938); Statements on the war and Hitler, by John A. Ryan (Washington, D.C., 1942); Americanism vs. Communism: liberty or tyranny, by David Goldstein (St. Louis: Central Bureau Press, 1936); Communism: A world menace, by John F. Cronin, S.S. (Washington, D.C.: National Catholic Welfare Conference, 1947); Communism, by Cardinal Richard J. Cushing (Boston: Daughters of St. Paul); Communism: the opium of the people, by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen (Paterson: St. Anthony's Guild, 1937); Communism's challenge to youth, by Bishop Duane G. Hunt (Huntington, Ind.: Our Sunday Visitor); Appeal to all Americans to join the battle against communism, by Cardinal Richard J. Cushing (Boston: Daughters of St. Paul); 'Persecution - Jewish and Christian' and 'Let us consider the record,' by Charles E. Coughlin (Royal Oak: Radio League of the Little Flower, 1938); Popular Front, by Charles E. Coughlin (Royal Oak, 1939); Beware of the 'Patriots' Who are they? What are they up to? And why? by Lon Francis (Huntington, Ind.: Our Sunday Visitor, 1947); Communistic crisis, by Joseph A. Vaughan, S.J. (Huntington, Ind.: Our Sunday Visitor); It is happening here, by John Francis (Huntington (Ind.): Our Sunday Visitor, 1937); Questions and answers on communism, by Cardinal Richard J. Cushing (Boston: Daughters of St. Paul); and Lecture ... Social Justice and Communism, by Charles E. Coughlin (Royal Oak: Radio League of the Little Flower, 1935).
Finding aid:
http://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/taxonomy/term/7059
[0066] American Citizens Concerned for Life, Inc., Records, 1968-1986 (bulk 1974-1982)
Location: Gerald R. Ford Library, 1000 Beal Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2114
Description: American Citizens Concerned for Life, Inc. (ACCL) was a national pro-life organization formed after the 1973 United States Supreme Court cases of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, both of which upheld a woman's right to an abortion. In addition, papers regarding the National Right to Life Committee and the Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life are housed within the collection. The series American Citizens Concerned for Life Administrative File, 1973-1986, contains Marjory Mecklenburg correspondence and files on Gerald R. Ford, Nellie Gray, Timothy LaHaye, Clare Boothe Luce, Dr. Fred Mecklenburg, Marjory Mecklenburg, Bernard N. Nathanson, and Mary Senander.
Websites with information:
http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/guides/guidecollectionsa-m.asp
http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/fordguide.pdf
Finding aids:
http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/guides/findingaid/americancitizens.asp
https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/guides/findingaid/americancitizens.asp
http://archive.today/RBjXh
[0067] Records of American Civil Liberties Union, 1917-date, CDG-A
Location: Swarthmore College Peace Collection, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081-1399
Description: The ACLU grew out of the American Union Against Militarism, which was founded in 1916 and dissolved in 1922. A subsection of the AUAM was called the National Civil Liberties Bureau; in 1920 it changed its name to the American Civil Liberties Union. Roger Baldwin was its director for 30 years (1920-1950), followed by Patrick Murphy Malin. Contains correspondence re: "Professional Patriots," 1927-1928.
Finding aid:
http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/CDGA.A-L/aclu.htm
[0068] American Civil Liberties Union. Cincinnati Chapter. Records, 1961-1971, 1976-1983, 1968-1986, Accession Nos.: US-74-1, US-75-16, US-86-20, US-89-3
Location: Archives and Rare Books Library of the University of Cincinnati Libraries, 8th Floor Blegen Library, P.O. Box 210113, 2602 McMicken Circle, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0113
Description: Records, including minutes, financial information, articles, newsletters, office files, organizational material and publications. Files on Abortion; Church / State; Desegregation; Hand Gun Control; KKK; Nazi Party; Pornography; School Desegregation; Skokie Case; Right to Life Mailing; New Far Right News Clips; Nazis; Terrorism; Scientific Creationism Decision-Arkansas US District Court; HUAC-Operation Abolition 1960-1961; Censorship-Citizens for Decent Literature; Civil Rights-Becker Amendment (Church and State); Labor - Miscellaneous (re: Right to Work Laws), 1965; Church-State Separation, 1967 - Abortion, 1966-1968; and Church-State Separation - School Busing, 1967.
References:
Whitney Strub, "Perversion for Profit: Citizens for Decent Literature and the Arousal of an Antiporn Public in the 1960s," Journal of the History of Sexuality, Volume 15, Number 2 (May 2006), pp. 258-291, https://stru
blog.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/15-2strub.pdf; Whitney Strub, Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right (New York, Columbia University Press, 2013).
Websites with information:
https://web.archive.org/web/20131511053800/http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/arb/archives/collections/urban_coll.html
http://www.libraries.uc.edu/arb/collections/urban-studies/us-collections.html
Finding aids:
https://web.archive.org/web/20100615044357/http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/arb/archives/inventories/aclu.pdf
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/archives/ead/OhCiUAR0171
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/archives/ead/OhCiUAR0172
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/archives/ead/OhCiUAR0173
http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/OhCiUAR0171.xml&query=&brand=default
http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/OhCiUAR0172.xml&query=&brand=default
http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/OhCiUAR0173.xml&query=&brand=default
[0069] American Civil Liberties Union. Illinois Division. Records, 1920-1982
Location: Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library, 1100 E. 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637-1504
Description: Documents the activities of the Illinois Division of the American Civil Liberties Union from its founding through the early 1980s. Includes case files, finances and fundraising information, individual and institutional correspondence, minutes, newsletters and publications, film, audio cassettes, and photographs. Contains files on Academic Freedom: Revilo Oliver, American Legion, American Security Council, Anti-Semitism, Attorney General's list, Joseph Beauharnais, Broyles Commission, Broadcasting blacklists (including Red Channels), Censorship, Frank Collin, Communism in the Public Schools, Communist Party and front groups, Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose), Deportation, fluoridation, Ford Foundation, Fund for the Republic, Gwinn Amendment, Alger Hiss, Letters to J. Edgar Hoover, House Un-American Activities Committee, Immigration, Internal Security Act of 1950, Jenner-Butler bill, John Birch Society, Ku Klux Klan, Loyalty, Loyalty Oath, Senator Joseph McCarthy, National Socialist White People's Party, Nazi Party, Obscenity, Operation Abolition, People of the State of Illinois v Frank Collin, Red Squad, right wing organizations, George Lincoln Rockwell, SACB, Skokie v. Nazi Party of America, Smith Act, and Gen. Edwin Walker.
Websites with information:
https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/scrc/finding-aids/
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/browse.php?alpha=A
http://bmrcsurvey.uchicago.edu/collections/1487-1
http://explore.chicagocollections.org/ead/uchicago/68/pk07v9p/
https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/scrc/finding-aids/?topic=Politics%2C%20Public%20Policy%20and%20Political
%20Reform&view=topics
Finding aids:
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.ACLUIL
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/ead/rlg/ICU.SPCL.ACLUIL.pdf
https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/ead/rlg/ICU.SPCL.ACLUIL.pdf
[0070] American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri Records, 1953-2008, WUA/
06/wua00355
Location: University Archives, Washington University in St. Louis, West Campus, 7425 Forsyth Blvd, St Louis, MO 63105
Description: This collection contains the records of the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri. Items in the collection include office files, promotional materials, memos, reports, financial documents, articles, conference materials, and other materials. Series 1: St. Louis Civil Liberties Committee, 1935-1967. Sub-Series 1: Office Files, 1953-1959, contains the statement of the ACLU on "Civil Aspects of the Lee Harvey Oswald Case.... December 1963." Sub-Series 2: Office Files and Cases, 1947-1957, contains a copy of "The Informer," by Frank Donner, The Nation, April 10, 1954; material on the Gwinn Amendment to the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, a law passed in 1952 requiring of persons living in federally-assisted housing a loyalty oath to the effect that they were not members of any organization on the Attorney General's "subversive list"; copies of bills on: lynching and poll tax; and Lattimore the Scholar, edited by Gerry Boas and Harvey Wheeler (1953), containing articles by other scholars attesting to Professor Lattimore's reputation; a copy of "People vs Property: Race Restrictive Covenants in Housing," by Herman H. Long and Charles S. Johnson, 1947 [online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015020076074]. Sub-Series 3: General Files of the Chairman, 1960-1961 (circa), and 1963-1965, contains "Communism on the Map" - complete text of the tape-film strip; and "The Greater St. Louis School of Anti-Communism, April 1961, Selected Quotations" prepared by the St. Louis Civil Liberties Committee (STLCLC), St. Louis, 1962. Series 2: ACLU of Eastern Missouri Files, 1953-1981. Sub-Series 1: Office Files, 1953-1980, contains a file on Ultra Right Organizations 1962-1967; a filmstrip guide to "Communism on the Map"; "The Christian Anti-Communism Crusade," prepared by STLCLC (April 1962); and a file on interracial marriage and miscegenation. Sub-Series 4: News clippings, 1967-1985, contains files on desegregation; Equal Rights Amendment; Church/State Aid to Parochial Schools - The School Bus Question; and School Desegregation U.S. Cities. Series 3: ACLU of Eastern Missouri Files, 1940-1991, contains files on Robert Bork-ACLU Opposition to Supreme Court Nomination; School Desegregation/ Busing; National Socialist White Peoples Party - Dennis Nix; National Socialist White Peoples Party v. Breckenridge Hills; Nix v. Breckenridge Hills - National Socialist White Peoples Party; and Nazis. Series 4: ACLU of Eastern Missouri Files, 1959-1995. Sub-Series 1: Administrative & Subject Files, has files on abortion, civil rights, and Ronald Reagan. Series 5: ACLU of Eastern Missouri Files, 1960-2003, has files on the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Series 8: American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri Files, 1994-2012, contains files on Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan v. City of Cape Girardeau.
Websites with information:
http://libguides.wustl.edu/stl-urban-history
http://archon.wulib.wustl.edu/index.php?p=collections/collections&char=A
Finding aids:
http://archon.wulib.wustl.edu/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=207
http://archon.wulib.wustl.edu/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=207
http://archon.wulib.wustl.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=207&q=#
https://web.archive.org/web/20130501232001/http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/archives/guides/pdf/aclu.pdf
[0071] American Civil Liberties Union of Florida Records, 1955-1981, Ms 2
Location: Special & Area Studies Collections, PO Box 117005, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, 205 Smathers Library, 1508 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL 32611-7005
Description: The American Civil Liberties Union of Greater Miami was formally recognized by the American Civil Liberties Union as an affiliate on June 6, 1955. The group was formed largely as a response to the anti-Communist scare of the nineteen fifties. Following the formation of chapters in Gainesville and Tampa, the group's named was changed in 1959 to the Florida Civil Liberties Union. In 1965, the name was changed again to the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, and the Miami affiliate was recognized as a chapter within the state wide organization. The records contain the official records and correspondence of the organization, topical files on subjects of interest, and complaints from citizens about alleged civil rights violations. The series Desegregation has files on Desegregation: Dade County School Board. The series Women has files on abortion and Equal Rights Amendment. The series Cases (Intake forms, briefs, etc.) by Subject, has files on Abortion, Ku Klux Klan, and Socialist Workers Party. The series ACLU of Florida Positions, 1971-1989, contains a file on Children's Rights (including Prayer in School).
Websites with information:
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/browset.htm
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/browseu_flm.htm
Finding aid:
http://www.library.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/ACLUFL.htm
[0071a] American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia Records, 1938-2014 (bulk 1975-2000), RBRL/025/ACLU
Location: Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia Libraries, 300 S Hull St, Athens, GA 30605
Description: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Georgia, founded in 1963, is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to protecting civil liberties in the state of Georgia. The records document their litigation and lobbying work, the subjects that they are concerned with, and their daily operations and include correspondence, case files, research files, and publications. Series I. Administrative, 1963-2009, contains files on ACLU: Skokie, 1978-1981, and ["Partial-Birth Abortion" Bans: The Threat to Reproductive Freedom]. Series II. Issues, 1952-2009 (Bulk, 1985-2000), contains files on Abortion (Access, Clinic Protests and Violence, Partial Birth, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Right-to-Life Groups, Rust v. Sullivan (Gag Rule), Webster v. Reproductive Health Services); American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ); Anti-Semitism; Birth Control; George Bush; Censorship; Christic Institute; Church/State; Church and State; Coral Ridge Ministries; Creationism; Discrimination; Discrimination, race; Equal Rights Amendment; Euthanasia; Family Planning; Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); Flag Burning; Confederate Flag; Fundamentalists; Gay and Lesbian Rights; Genetics; Newt Gingrich; Gun Control; Hate Crimes; Highlander Center; Immigration - McCarran-Walter Act; Interracial Relationships; Judiciary (Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas); KKK; Jack Kemp; Koinonia; Ku Klux Klan; Libertarian Party; Loyalty Oaths; Ed Meese; Militia; Multiculturalism; Planned Parenthood; Pornography; Republican Party; Schools (Creationism, Prayer, Religion, Segregation, Racial, Sex Education); Sodomy; Sterilization; Terrorism; and Voting Rights. Series III. Legal, 1938-2014 (Bulk, 1974-2007), contains files on City of Atlanta v. Operation Rescue and Voting Rights. Series IV. Legislation, 1984-2014 (Bulk, 2000-2010), contains files on AAP [Abortion Access Project], "Impeding the Right to Choose: Crisis Pregnancy Centers" [Emergency Contraception], 2004 [online at https://web.archive.org/web/20050
519113052/http://www.abortionaccess.org/AAP/publica_resources/fact_sheets/crisispregnancy.pdf]; Abortion Ban; Anti-Immigrant Legislation; Church/State- Evolution; Gay Rights and Gay Marriage; Obscenity; Prayer in Schools; USA Patriot Act; and voting rights (particularly requiring a photo-ID to vote).
Finding aid:
http://russelldoc.galib.uga.edu/russell/view?docId=ead/RBRL025ACLU-ead.xml
[0072] ACLU of Louisiana records, 1954-1986, Manuscripts Collection 661
Location: Louisiana Research Collection, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, 6801 Freret St, New Orleans, LA 70118
Description: The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana (ACLULA) started in 1956 as a state affiliate of the national ACLU, adopting the initial name of the Louisiana Civil Liberties Union (LCLU). The first president of the group was George Dreyfous. In the chapter's early years, the organization dealt with many issues related to segregation, including school integration, voting rights, and censorship of media. The group also struggled against public perceptions that the group had Communist sympathies. The records include financial records, court case files, personal correspondence, pamphlets, clippings, case research, and newsletters. Files on Abortion, Civil rights in the South, Communist material, Communist Party elections, Constitution, Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), Jim Garrison, F. Edward Hébert, Ku Klux Klan, Knights vs. East Baton Rouge Parish School Board, Socialist Workers Party, Sterilization, Unification Church, and Young Men's Business Club attack on ACLU.
Websites with information:
http://newcomb.tulane.edu/blogs/reprohealth/archival-collections/primary-sources-archival-collection/
Finding aids:
http://specialcollections.tulane.edu/archon/?p=collections/controlcard&id=225
http://specialcollections.tulane.edu/archon/?p=collections/findingaid&id=225&q=
[0072a] American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana records, 1970-1985
Location: Amistad Research Center, Inc., Tilton Hall, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118
Description: These records document a range of activities including legal cases and ongoing functions of the Louisiana branch of the American Civil Liberties Union. Cases include a variety of issues, such as Creationism, abortion, AIDS discrimination, censorship, and others.
Websites with information:
http://newcomb.tulane.edu/blogs/reprohealth/archival-collections/primary-sources-archival-collection/
Finding aid:
http://amistadresearchcenter.tulane.edu/archon/index.php?p=accessions/accession&id=923
[0073] American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland (ACLU) Collection, 1919-2005
Location: Langsdale Library Special Collections, University of Baltimore, 1420 Maryland Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21201
Description: The Maryland ACLU was founded March 8, 1931, and currently has over 14,000 members in Maryland. It is a nonprofit foundation involved in litigation and public education. The collection consists of case files, correspondence, reports, publications, clippings, and programs. Series IX. Subject Files, contains files on Abortion, Abortion, Sterilization, Church/State: Prayer in Schools, Expression: Flag Desecration, Expression: Loyalty Oaths, Operation Abolition, and George L. Rockwell.
Websites with information:
http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/special-collections/a-z-holdings-list/
Finding aids:
http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/special-collections/a-z-holdings-list/american-civil-liberties-union-of-maryland.cfm
http://cdm16352.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16352coll2/id/26
[0074] American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts records, 1920-2005
Location: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215
Description: The records of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (ACLUM), formerly the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (CLUM), consist of 96 record cartons, 3 document boxes and 11 oversize boxes, spanning the years 1920-2005. The records include legal, legislative, and subject files, ACLUM administrative records, correspondence, printed material, and other records related to the organization's attempts to protect civil rights in Massachusetts and the United States. Series I. Archival records, 1920-1970, contains files on Anti-Poll Tax Bill; Dies Committee; Poll-Tax; McCarran Act; Smith Act of 1940; "Operation Correction," anti-HUAC film, 1962; "Operation Abolition," HUAC Film, 1961; American Nazi Party, George L. Rockwell case, 1960; Becker Amendment, school prayer, 1964; Group Research Report, newsletter in right-wing groups, index, 1964; Group Research Report, newsletter, 1962-63; House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC); John Birch Society; and Massachusetts Commission to Investigate Subversion, Sherman Commission, "Reports of The Social Commission to Investigate the Activities within this Commonwealth of Communistic, Fascist, Nazi and other Subversive Organizations...," Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1938. Series VII. Subject files, 1972-1999, contains files on Abortion, 1978-1989; ACLU defense of right-wingers, 1987; David Duke; The Nationalist Movement, 1995; Ollie North on Freedom Alliance, 1990; Religious Right, 1993-1994; Skokie and CLUM, 1977-1978; and White supremacist parade. 1994 (Richard Barrett of the Mississippi-based Nationalist Movement, in Boston, May 7, 1994).
Finding aids:
http://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0309
http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0309
[0075] American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan/Metropolitan Detroit Branch Collection Papers, 1952-1966, Accession #231
Location: Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, 5401 Cass Ave., Detroit, MI 48202
Description: The Metropolitan Detroit Branch of the American Civil Liberties Union was chartered in 1952 as an affiliate of the national ACLU, founded in 1920 to protect the civil liberties of citizens expressing unpopular views during World War I. In 1961, the Lansing, Ann Arbor, and Detroit area chapters joined together to form the ACLU of Michigan, which coordinates civil liberties activities for these and several other chapters that formed over the next decades. The papers of the ACLU of Michigan/Metropolitan Detroit Branch consist of minutes, correspondence, reports, clippings, case files, press releases, newsletters and other material relating primarily to the activities of the Detroit branch and to a lesser extent the activities of the state organization and regional branches. Series II - General File, contains files on Anti-Communist, Anti-Labor legislation, Bricker Amendment, Barry Goldwater, Gwinn Amendment (1952; forbidding the occupation of public housing by a member of an organization on the Attorney General's list of subversive groups, and required loyalty oaths as a means to insure this), Imprisonment for Debt, Jenner-Butler Bill (to limit the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court in certain cases), Miscegenation, Moral Rearmament, Operation Abolition and Operation Correction, Lee Harvey Oswald, Karl Prussion, Right to Work, Right Wing Organizations, Jack Ruby, and Smith Act (internal security).