American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota records, 1940-2012 (bulk 1951-1996), File no. 00497, Accession numbers: 14,123, etc.
Location: Minnesota Historical Society, 345 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul, MN 55102-1906
Description: Organizational files, subject files, news media files, files relating to relationships with other organizations, investigation files, fund raising events, lobbying files, and case files documenting the 1952 formation and subsequent activities of the Minnesota state affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union. Organizational Files, 1940-1997 (bulk 1951-1996), contains a file on the film Communism on the Map (National Education Program, Searcy, Ark.; produced by Glenn A. Green), 1961-1962. Subject Files, 1951-2012. Topic I: Freedom of Belief, Expression, and Association, contains files on Free Speech (National Committee to Abolish the HUAC, 1958-1966; House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) - "Operation Abolition" (film), 1960-1962; Hate crimes rulings; Racism hate speech); Cases (Nazi march in Skokie, 1978-1988); Flag burning; Mississippi KKK case, 1978; Freedom of Assembly (Anti-abortion protests); and Religion and the Public Schools (Creationism, Prayer in the public schools). Topic II: Equality Before the Law, contains files on Discrimination in education: desegregation; Grove City decision and aftermath; and Racial discrimination. Topic V: Abortion and Reproductive Freedom, contains files on Pro-life movement clippings and Right to Life publications. Topic VIII: Miscellaneous Subject Files, contains files on American Legion, American Nazi Party, anti-Communism, Civil rights, Euthanasia, Anti-gay legislation: an attempt to sanction inequality, Gun control, Holocaust studies, Iran Contra, Loyalty oaths, Moral majority/new right, and Segregation. Organizations, 1969-1995, contains files on American Nazi Party, Ku Klux Klan, Minnesota Family Council, Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, Moral Majority, Morality in Media, National Socialist White People's Party, and Religious Right.
Websites with information:
http://libguides.mnhs.org/civilrights/primary
http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/index_A.htm
Finding aids:
http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00497.xml
http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00497.xml
[0077] American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina records, 1960-2005 and undated, RL.00012
Location: Human Rights Archive, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Box 90185, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0185
Description: North Carolina affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, founded in 1969 and based in Raleigh. The records of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina (ACLU of N.C.) date from the 1960s to the mid-2000s. There are many files on the Ku Klux Klan, Confederate displays, and right-wing organizations in North Carolina. Files on Creationism; Picketers at Crist Clinic being charged with interference, 1982; telegram from ACLU-NC to Jesse Helms; Ku Klux Klan/Nazi rally, 1984; Greensboro: press credentials, coverage of Ku Klux Klan rally; Sons of Confederate Veterans, denied access to city festival, 1992; and Skokie.
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.;
