American Civil Liberties Union Records: Audiovisual Materials Series, 1947-1995: Finding Aid

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American Civil Liberties Union Records: Audiovisual Materials Series, 1947-1995: Finding Aid

MC001.02.06

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Summary Information

Creator:: American Civil Liberties Union.
Title and dates:: American Civil Liberties Union Records: Audiovisual Materials Series, 1947-1995
Abstract:: The American Civil Liberties Union Records document the activities of the Union in protecting individual rights from 1920 through 1995. The files contain materials on freedom of speech, expression, and association; due process of law; equality before the law; legal case files; and organizational records. Within these categories files reflect subject areas such as academic freedom, censorship, racial discrimination, aliens' rights, privacy concerns, labor concerns, amnesty, and government loyalty and security. The files reflect work on litigation, advocacy and public policy, and subject files on various areas of interest connected with civil liberties. Materials include correspondence, court documents, memoranda, printed matter, minutes, reports, briefs, and legal files. Also included are materials from ACLU affiliate organizations, and the Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee.
Size:: 28.5 linear feet (67 boxes)
Call number:: MC001.02.06
Location:: Princeton University Library. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library.
Public Policy Papers.
Princeton, New Jersey 08540 USA
Language(s) of material:: English.
Storage note:: This collection is stored onsite at the Mudd Manuscript Library.

History of the American Civil Liberties Union

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) was established in 1920 to protect the specific constitutional freedoms in the Bill of Rights. In 1915 the American Union Against Militarism (AUAM) was formed to prevent United States involvement in World War I with Crystal Eastman serving as executive secretary. Roger Baldwin became executive director in 1917. Immediately upon United States entry in World War I, the AUAM was inundated with requests for aid to protect free speech, assembly and press which were threatened with political restriction imposed upon U.S. entry into the war and to defend the rights of conscientious objectors. A separate organization was needed to safeguard these rights, and thus the National Civil Liberties Bureau (NCLB) was established in the autumn of 1917 with Roger Baldwin as director.

For the history of the ACLU during the Baldwin years, see the history in the ACLU finding aid, 1912-1950.

The ACLU, 1950-1995: The Trials of Growth

The forty years between 1950 and 1990 were a time of significant growth for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Membership increased twenty-five times, and the Union's impact on the legal landscape was broad and deep. One historian decreed that the decade after 1954 witnessed “the greatest advances in civil liberties in American history,” with significant gains for African-Americans, women, students, the mentally-ill, prisoners, and others previously denied the full protection afforded by the U.S. Constitution. This period also saw the end to much censorship and the decoupling of church/state activity. The ACLU's boom was not without the threat of bust, however. The organization restructured itself several times as it wrestled to reflect internally the principles it espoused publicly. Its expansion into new areas of civil rights along with its firm stand on the First Amendment produced episodes that threatened the ACLU's viability.

Organizational Expansion

In the years immediately following World War II, younger, non-founding members of the ACLU Board pressed for and eventually achieved a structural reorganization that led to the Union's present configuration. In 1950, Roger Baldwin's role changed from administrator to ambassador, in which he toured, lectured, and wrote on civil liberties issues. While at the helm of the ACLU, Baldwin preferred that the ACLU remain a small, centrally-controlled unit with himself at the helm, something that changed under the administration of his successor, Patrick Murphy Malin. A Swarthmore economist, Malin lacked Baldwin's charm and speaking skills, but he was a successful administrator who oversaw the growth of the organization from 9,000 members in 1950 to over 60,000 by the time of his departure in 1962.

Much of this growth can be attributed to the expansion of local affiliates at the state and regional level that had their own boards and acted upon local civil liberties issues. Many served as watchdogs--ensuring that civil rights victories won by the national ACLU in the high courts were enforced at the local level--while other affiliates were active in initiating cases, often with more absolutist positions than the national office. Though the affiliates had a voice in deciding the national chapter's direction and policy since 1954, the organizational mechanism by which this was accomplished was cumbersome, changing several times. A workable method was found in 1967 with the creation of an 80-member board of directors comprised of representatives from all the affiliates and thirty at-large members. In addition, starting in 1959 and continuing to the present, the ACLU held biennial conferences to inform membership on pertinent topics, and to gather their views on civil liberties issues.

The Cold War and Civil Liberties

Historian Samuel Walker divides the ACLU's area of activity between 1950-1990 into four broad areas: Cold War issues, censorship, church/state, and civil rights. The beginning of the Cold War, the rise of Joseph McCarthy and the re-emergence of the House Committee on Un- American Activities (HUAC) created an atmosphere of intolerance and suspicion that not only posed a threat to individual civil liberties, but also destroyed the lives of many caught in the web spun by the Wisconsin Senator and his minions. The ACLU challenged the actions of McCarthy and HUAC on the tenet that only peoples' acts, not their beliefs, should be penalized; anything less infringed on First Amendment principle.

While the ACLU had not always lived up to these same principles (in 1940 it ousted board member Elizabeth Gurley Flynn for her membership in the Communist Party), by the early 1950s the ACLU did not hesitate to aid in the publication of Merle Miller's The Judges and the Judged. The book detailed HUAC's and McCarthy's red-baiting tactics, such as the prevalent use of unnamed (and hence unreliable or unanswerable) sources, guilt by association or exercise of one's Fifth Amendment rights, and other questionable means that resulted in blacklistings and firings of many in unions, the film industry, and the teaching profession. The ACLU called for the abolition of HUAC, attacked any measure that punished Communist Party members or denied them rights based solely on party membership ( Kent v. Dulles, for example), and sought fair and open investigations for the accused. In testament to its strict adherence to principle, the ACLU reminded the United States Senate of its obligation to provide McCarthy a fair hearing when it began censure proceedings against him in 1954.

The ACLU may have stood up for the rights of the accused more readily in 1950 than it did in 1940 because Roger Baldwin had developed a quid pro quo with J. Edgar Hoover in which the ACLU did not publicize FBI civil rights violations, and high-level Union officers cooperated with the Bureau. Baldwin and others thought that this cooperation, in conjunction with the Flynn resolution, inoculated the Union against attack as a Communist-front organization, freeing it to spend its energies defending constitutional principle, not itself. This arrangement, shocking when revealed in later years, did not prevent the FBI from continuing its massive surveillance of the ACLU and its members.

Red hunters cited national security as the basis for their actions, a justification that the government would continue to invoke and one that the ACLU contested in such cases as the Pentagon Papers ( U.S. v. New York Times), Watergate ( U.S. v. Nixon), and Iran-Contra. In 1969, 13 years after Joseph McCarthy's death, the ACLU's vigilance bore the ultimate fruit in Brandenburg v. Ohio in which the Supreme Court ruled that the government only could punish direct incitement to lawless action, thereby invalidating the Smith Act and all state sedition laws that restricted radical political thought.

Censorship and Freedom of Speech

The cousin to McCarthyism's national security cause was the drive to protect people from printed materials and movies that promoted Communism or were perceived to erode community morals. Censorship attempts were, from the ACLU's point of view, a fundamental attack on free speech, and over the course of three decades, the Union came to adopt an absolutist position, suffering no infringement in any form. Beginning with a 1952 Supreme Court victory in Burstyn v. Wilson/McCaffrey in which the high court declared that states cannot prohibit the screening of films based on state-based standards, the ACLU rang up a string of court victories. These, combined with changing market pressures, brought a complete end to many common censorship practices by the 1960s ( Jacobellis v. Ohio), including the sharp curtailment of post office censorship ( Hannegan v. Esquire).

In a related decision, the Supreme Court gave a boost to freedom of the press in New York Times v. Sullivan which declared that public officials could not sue for defamation unless they proved “actual malice,” thereby providing the media with heretofore unknown freedom to report critically. Freedom of speech was extended, with the ACLU's assistance, by placing it above property rights in Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins, with the high court deciding that a shopping center could not forbid the distribution of political pamphlets on its premises.

Perhaps the most famous free speech issue of the ACLU's history, and certainly one that had the greatest impact on the organization, was the pitched battle over American Nazis' right to parade through Skokie, Illinois in 1977. Half the town's 70,000 citizens were Jewish, and about 1,000 were Holocaust survivors, but this did not dissuade the ACLU (then headed by Aryeh Neier who was Jewish) from taking on the Nazis' cause in what the ACLU considered a “classic First Amendment case.”

What the Union did not count on was a vigorous counter-argument by the Jewish Defense League, nor the loss of the support of its long-time ally, the American Jewish Congress. The ACLU won the court case, though the Nazis never marched in Skokie (ultimately parading at a site in downtown Chicago), but the highly-publicized case caused a backlash resulting in a large drop in membership. Neier, who had assumed the executive director's post after the departure of John de J. Pemberton in 1970 and was accustomed to growing membership rolls and increasing budgets, found himself unable to reconcile the organization's activities with available funds and resigned. His successor, Ira Glasser, initiated an emergency appeal to supporters and raised over $500,000, allowing him to re-structure organizationally and financially, placing the ACLU back in the black and ready for the looming trials of the Reagan Revolution.

Church/State

The ACLU earned the enmity of many for its efforts in enforcing the separation of church and state. Working to end state-sanctioned forms of religion, predominantly mainstream Protestantism, the ACLU sought to abolish school prayer, various government subsidies for religious education, and other connections between government and religious activity. Starting in 1947 with Everson v. Board of Education, the court delineated the Establishment Clause and the ACLU began to challenge long-entrenched government support for religious activity. Assailing school prayer, the ACLU won high court decisions to end it ( Engel v. Vitale and Abingdon School District v. Schempp). It also re-fought the Scopes trial ( Epperson v. Arkansas) in Arkansas which had required the teaching of creationism as well as evolution.

Frequently working in conjunction with Protestants United for the Separation of Church and State (later Americans United…) and the American Jewish Congress, the ACLU repeatedly clashed with the desires of the Roman Catholic Church on issues such as censorship, birth control, or school aid, often with the ACLU the victor. By the late 1960s, changes in public attitude toward church/state issues cemented the organization's gains, as many mainstream churches accepted the delineation. However, fundamentalist religions continued challenging laws on public prayer issues into the 1990s, with little effect ( Wallace v. Jaffree). Often, the affiliates bore the brunt of enforcement on church/state separation, acting to check sometimes frequent local infringements, thus proving Roger Baldwin's assertion that “no victory ever stays won.”

Civil Rights

The First Amendment clearly delineates free speech protection and church/state separation, and it was easy for the ACLU to pick up the banner for these causes. However, most of the ACLU's work from the 1950s onward involved the more ambiguous and complex realm of civil rights, helping secure the rights or expanding the concept of those same rights for those who had been denied them in the past such as African-Americans, women, homosexuals, children, the mentally-ill, prisoners, and the accused. In this multifaceted arena, the ACLU found itself embroiled both internally and externally, as the national organization sought to define its mission even as state affiliates and regional offices acted on their own accord, usually pushing further and harder than the national organization planned to go.

For example, during the Vietnam War ACLU moderates clashed with anti-war activists over the issue of representing Dr. Benjamin Spock, the famous pediatrician and prominent anti-war activist accused of interfering with the functions of government when he organized a “Stop the Draft” Week in 1968. Legal director Melvin Wulf first announced that the ACLU would represent Spock, only to be overruled by the national board, prompting the Massachusetts affiliate to take up Spock's cause. Though ultimately the government would drop its case, pro- Spock members saw the case as an opportunity to raise questions about the Vietnam War's legitimacy (as well as freedom of speech), while moderates viewed that issue as outside the ACLU's scope. It also brought to the fore a long-simmering debate over whether the ACLU should participate directly in lawsuits or contribute amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) briefs to other cases. After reviewing its most recent past activity, the Union decided that they had de facto become directly involved in cases and would continue as such.

Despite the organizational turmoil, a discussion of the ACLU's legal success under the civil rights rubric threatens to become a numbing list of historic Supreme Court decisions. Brown v. Board of Education, which overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and tolled the end of government-endorsed segregation was one of many cases in which the ACLU worked together with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to win rights for African-Americans. The ACLU participated in all the major civil rights cases, arguing for freedom of speech and association rights that allowed the sit-ins, freedom rides, and other methods employed by the movement.

Other famous high court cases in which the ACLU partook include: Griswold v. Connecticut, which recognized a right to privacy, thereby laying the foundation for future abortion rights decisions; Tinker v. Des Moines and In re Gault, two cases recognizing that minors enjoyed some Constitutional protection, especially in regard to freedom of speech and due process; and Miranda v. Arizona, Mapp v. Ohio, Escobedo v. Illinois, and Gideon v. Wainwright, all of which expanded the rights of the accused, mandating an explanation of their rights and access to counsel, and placing limits on police action. (While these last cases caused many police groups to view the ACLU with hostility, the Union also defended a police officer's right to belong to conservative political organizations such as the John Birch Society.)

As the concept of civil rights expanded, the ACLU started several special projects designed to focus solely on specific topics, including the Mental Health Law Project, the Project on Amnesty, the Privacy Project, the Women's Rights Project, the Lesbian and Gay Rights Project, and Prisoners' Rights Project. Each project worked not only to change the law, but to educate the public and raise their own funds.

Expansion Issues

The Children's Rights Project is an example of how the ACLU changed itself from a small, centrally-controlled organization to an expansive confederacy of groups working to advance the goal of civil liberties. With its roots in the 1970s and located at the national organization's office in New York City, it was one of the focused projects financially seeded by the national organization. In 1995, it had become successful enough to incorporate itself and separate from the ACLU organizationally, physically, and financially. Another sign of growth was the start of the regional offices. In addition to the Washington, D.C. office (established 1938) the Southern Regional Office in Atlanta was organized in 1964 and the Mountain States Regional Office in Denver a few years later. Each handled cases particular to their geographic areas, as well as the usual range of cases that interested the ACLU. This led to varying interpretations of ACLU policy which resulted in the creation of the ACLU's official policy guides, issued first in 1966 and revised periodically. These represented the ACLU's attempt to coordinate and control the types of cases the Union would take on and to shepherd resources along coordinated lines.

Unfortunately, the national organization had trouble determining what path to take, as many individuals within the organization pulled in different directions. Exacerbating this problem was the ACLU's re-structuring which attempted to reconcile the many voices in the civil liberties debate. After the first re-organization which opened up policy making to affiliates in 1954, the ACLU re-organized again in 1964, establishing a two-tiered system of governance in which affiliate representatives met twice a year and the board of directors in between. The dichotomy did not provide any stability and three years later, the Union re-organized once again, establishing its one-body 80-member board. Throughout this time, the ACLU continued its board committees--some standing, others ad hoc--which focused on particular issues such as academic freedom or due process. In later years, the rise of the special projects would overtake some of the committees' work and the role of the committees would be reduced, though not eliminated.

The establishment of the Roger N. Baldwin/ACLU Foundation in 1967 was another major organizational change for the ACLU. The Union created the charitable fund-raising arm to pay attorneys to work on the ACLU's behalf, signalling the end of the national organization's long- standing reliance on volunteer lawyers. Though volunteer attorneys continued to play a significant role in many of the affiliates, even there some groups, such as the New York and Southern California affiliates, had a history of paying for legal representation. The Foundation's purpose was to solicit funds from, among other places, other foundations, and during its early years much of its resources supported civil rights work in the South. In later years, it would provide initial funds for many of the special projects, gather any legal fees won by the project lawyers, applying the funds against the project's overhead costs.

These changes reflected not only the organization's growth, but also its expanding interpretation of what constituted civil liberties work. Starting with the civil rights movement and continuing on through the Vietnam War and Watergate, the ACLU fought internally, often bitterly, over the scope and nature of its work. In this battle, the broad interpreters of the Union's mission won out, as the organization took on cases involving abortion rights, women's rights, affirmative action, and other areas, far from the basic principle of protecting First Amendment rights on which the Union was founded.

The 1980s and early 1990s

The ACLU emerged from the 1970s a victor of many legal battles and organizationally strong. However, despite its track record and strength, the ACLU would not ring up a string of Supreme Court victories in the 1980s and 1990s as it had in the previous two decades. Public sentiment, long an ally in many areas, had shifted against the organization, to the point that ACLU membership was identified as out-of-the-mainstream. In the 1988 presidential election, GOP candidate George Bush, willfully unaware of nearly fifty years of Supreme Court decisions, echoed the phrase of Joseph McCarthy in calling his opponent, Michael Dukakis, a “card- carrying member of the ACLU” for his opposition to a flag-salute requirement. The Bush accusation reflected the state of public awareness of civil liberties in the 1980s as the ACLU re- fought a number of battles over such issues as censorship, school prayer, creationism, and abortion rights. In the area of censorship, the Union withstood challenges from both right and left, the latter trying to censor publications under the rubric of protecting women. However, the ACLU stood firm in its belief in the absolute freedom of speech.

The U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights were written to guarantee that the rights of the minority would not be infringed upon by the majority; the ACLU's accomplishments during the twentieth century helped to ensure that unpopular views would be tolerated, and indirectly, to remind people that it is an uncommon nation that commonly tolerates challenges to the majority view.

Description

These Records document the activities of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in protecting individual rights between 1947 and 1995. The collection contains correspondence, clippings, court documents, memoranda, printed matter, minutes, reports, briefs, legal files, exhibit materials, and audio-visual materials. Also included are materials from ACLU affiliate organizations, the Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee and national office legal department records (1945-1960).

Due to the exceptionally large volume within the ACLU Records, succinct series and subseries descriptions have been written, providing a basic outline of the records available. The researcher should always consult the folder list to ascertain if the records contain a topic of interest since not all subjects are mentioned in these brief descriptions.

The researcher should also be aware that many topics may be covered in more than one series or subseries. For instance, materials concerning freedom of the press are located in both the Mass Communications and Censorship subseries. Often the series descriptions note similar materials found in other parts of this collection. Due to limitations in processing time, not every file is in exact chronological or alphabetical order.

Arrangement

Series 6: Audiovisual Materials, circa 1920-1995

Access and Use

Access

This agreement describes the limits on access to portions of the American Civil Liberties Union Records as provided by paragraph six of the agreement between the American Civil Liberties Union and the Princeton University Library dated on March 1993. These restrictions may be revised from time to time at the initiation of either party.

Consistent with its support of freedom of information and informed public discourse on matters of public interest, the American Civil Liberties Union Records will be completely open to researchers. However, sections of the Records shall be closed for stated periods of time to protect privacy, confidentiality, and attorney-client privilege. The following categories of records shall be restricted as indicated below:

Personnel Records - Records which deal with personnel issues, whether in personnel files or in other files maintained by the ACLU shall be closed during the lifetime of the person to whom they apply. When scattered personnel records are present in open files, they shall be governed by this paragraph. This restriction shall not apply if the person or persons to whom the record applies have given their permission in writing to disclose said information.

Administrative Records - Records maintained by ACLU administrators (Board and Executive committee members, officers, executives, department heads, project directors, etc.) shall be closed for twenty years after the creation of the record or ten years after its deposit in the Princeton University Library, whichever is latter, but in no case for more than 30 years after the creation of the record. Personnel records will continue to be closed as provided above.

Development Records - Records relating to financial support from foundations or other legal entities but not individuals or their family foundations shall be closed for the same period as administrative records. Records relating to financial support by individual donors or their family foundations shall be returned to the ACLU if other more substantive issues relating to policy are not raised by the correspondence. When other issues are relevant, these records shall be closed for the same period as administrative records. Where opened the portions relating to individuals or their family foundations shall be treated like personnel records as provided below.

Legal Case Records - Legal Case Files shall be segregated into four categories:

1) Open Records - publicly-available materials relating to the case (public court records such as briefs, transcripts, exhibits, and judgments as well as other records such as press releases and media coverage) shall be open immediately upon transfer to Princeton.

2) Work Product Privileged Records - correspondence, memoranda, drafts of briefs prepared in anticipation of litigation, written statements of witnesses, and notes of mental impressions or personal recollections prepared or formed by an attorney shall be open twenty years after the closure of the case.

3) Attorney-Client Privileged Records - any document reflecting an exchange with a client or a potential client (including but not limited to written correspondence, memoranda to the file, notes, or any other report of communication to or from a client or potential client) made for the purpose of furnishing or obtaining professional legal advice and assistance shall be closed for seventy-five years for all clients, except for children where the period of closure shall be one hundred years.

4) The access rules set forth above do not apply to the following materials: classified documents; documents that have been placed under seal by a court or are subject to a protective order; documents that identify by name or otherwise clients that have been represented anonymously or pseudonymously; the terms of any confidential settlement or agreement. All such documents shall remain permanently closed unless the records are declassified, unsealed, the protective order is modified, or the client or the client's legal representative waives the privilege in writing.

Restrictions on Use and Copyright Information

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Curator of the Public Policy Papers. Researchers are responsible for determining any copyright questions.

Other Finding Aid(s)

The American Civil Liberties Union Records: Audiovisual Materials Series forms part of the American Civil Liberties Union Records (Call Number 001). Due to the large volume of the ACLU records multiple online finding aids have been created.

A single finding aid exists for the American Civil Liberties Union Records dating from 1917-1947 and is available online: American Civil Liberties Union Records, The Roger Baldwin Years, 1917-1947.

American Civil Liberties Union Records dating from 1947 have been divided in to six series; each series is described in a separate finding aid. These finding aids are listed below:

Series 1: American Civil Liberties Union Records: Organizational Matters Series, 1947-1995.

Series 2: American Civil Liberties Union Records: Project Files Series, 1964-1979.

Series 3: American Civil Liberties Union Records: Subject Files Series, 1921-1990.

Series 4: American Civil Liberties Union Records: Legal Case Files Series, 1933-1990.

Series 5: American Civil Liberties Union Records: Printed Materials Series, 1917-1995.

Series 6: American Civil Liberties Union Records: Audiovisual Materials Series, circa 1920-1995.

Acquisition and Appraisal

Appraisal

During the processing of this collection, many items were discarded, including newspaper clippings from the New York Times and other major newspapers, government publications, well- known serial publications, and publications and large distribution memoranda from well-known and well-documented organizations such as the American Jewish Committee or Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.

Related Materials

Location of Copies or Alternate Formats

Public records of the ACLU from 1917 to 1989, have been microfilmed by the Microfilming Corporation of America (MCA) and University Microfilms International (UMI). These records include minutes of the board of directors, mailings to the board of directors, biennial conference papers, policy guides, the national legal docket, organization manuals, constitution and bylaws, legal briefs, and publications. The American Civil Liberties Union Records and Publications 1917-1975: A Guide to the Microfilm Edition and succeeding guides to these materials are available in the reference room, and the microfilm itself is located in the microforms reading room.

The bound volumes of ACLU records covering 1917 through 1946 (volumes 1-2762) have been microfilmed and researchers must use the microfilm in order to prevent further deterioration of the these fragile volumes. Researchers should consult the finding aid to the earlier ACLU records (1917-1946) for their description and arrangement.

Related Archival Material

American Civil Liberties Union, Washington, D.C. Office Records
American United for the Separation of Church and State Records
Roger N. Baldwin Papers
Osmond K. Fraenkel Diaries
Fund for the Republic Records
Arthur Garfield Hays Papers
Peggy Lamson Collection on Roger N. Baldwin
Law Students Civil Rights Research Council Records
PEN American Center Records (at Firestone Library)

Processing and Other Information

Works Cited

Historical sketch based on In Defense of American Liberties: A History of the ACLU by Samuel Walker. See also Samuel Walker's The American Civil Liberties Union: An Annotated Bibliography.

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Paula Jabloner in 1994-1996 with the assistance of Assistant Archivist for Technical Services Daniel Linke, Special Collections Assistants Amy Escott, Claire Johnston, Alison McCuaig, and Tom Rosko, and students Laurie Alexander, Christina Aragon, Laura Burt, Jue Chen, Clement Doyle, Joe Faber, Said Farah, Boyd Goodson, Naomi Harlin, Janet Hine, Matthew Honahan, Katherine Johnson, Damian Long, Theresa Marchitto, Laura Myones, Olivia Kew, Grace Koo, Dan Sack, Bijan Salehizadeh, Tina Wang, Kyle Weston, and Elizabeth Williamson.

Descriptive Rules Used

Finding aid content adheres to that prescribed by Describing Archives: A Content Standard.

Encoding

Machine-readable finding aid encoded in EAD 2002 by Techbooks and Cristela García-Spitz on November 16, 2006.

Finding aid written in English.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); American Civil Liberties Union Records, Box and Folder Number; Public Policy Papers, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Subject Headings

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Contents List

Series 6, Audio-Visual materials circa 1920-1995

Series Description

The Audio Visual Series contains VHS video cassette tapes, Beta video cassette tapes, 1” and 2” video tape, 16 mm film, 2-inch videotape, microfilm, audio cassettes, 33 1/3 rpm and 45 rpm records, photographs, and reel-to-reel audio tapes. All of the audio-visual material is arranged by format, then chronologically, except for the photographs which are arranged alphabetically by subject or individual.

The VHS video tapes contain a few sessions from the 1989 Biennial Conference, but primarily consist of TV talk shows, press conferences, network news, and documentaries covering a wide range of civil liberties issues. Most shows feature one or more ACLU-affiliated guests. The VHS tapes span 1979 through 1992, and 1995.

The audio cassettes consist almost entirely of recordings of the sessions from the 1985, 1987, and 1989 Biennial Conferences. Also included are three tapes from Series 3, Subject Files: Deprogramming. For the 1985 Conference, a list of the presenter(s) of the various sessions is provided, however, this information was not available for the 1987 and 1989 Conferences.

The reel-to-reel audio tapes are divided into two sections: seven-inch reels and five-inch reels. The seven-inch reels contain debates involving Fulton Lewis III from the early 1960s, recordings from the 1970 Biennial Conference, and various ACLU board meetings from 1973-1976. The five-inch reels contain ACLU public service announcements. There are a few reels, both seven- inch and five-inch, that are presently unidentified.

The 16mm films include TV shows and films that the ACLU had significant interest in, including “Operation Abolition,” a 1960 propaganda film prepared by the House Committee on Un-American Activities distorting the events of a student protest against the HUAC hearings in San Francisco. Also included is the response film “Operation Correction.”

The photographs are primarily portraits and group photos of ACLU officials. Negatives for some of the photographs are also enclosed. There are also a few slides. The 2” video tapes consist of eight reels from the “Rights of Americans” series and “commercial spots” for the Amnesty Project.

Series Arrangement

Series 6 is arranged by form and alphabetically or chronologically therein.

VHS Cassette Tapes
1979-1 60 Minutes, Roger Baldwin interview, 1979/3/11
Box 2036

1979-2 MacNeil-Lehrer Report; Roger Baldwin, 1979/4/25

[Note: A 1” archival videotape copy of videotapes 1979-1 and 1979-2 is located at end of last range of ACLU Records]

Box 2036

1981-1 Phil Donahue, The Moral Majority; Ira Glasser, 1981
Box 2036
1984-1 C-SPAN, Libel Law Call-In Program; Ira Glasser, 1984/12/13
Box 2036
1985-1 World News Tonite, The Sanctuary: Nuns Hiding Illegal Aliens, 1985/5/27
Box 2036
1986-1 Constitution at 200, The Constitution; Burt Neuborne, 1986/4/2
Box 2036
1986-2 Rights in Jeopardy, Gay Rights and AIDS: The role of the ACLU; Dave Waxy, John Barboni (KC), Tom Stoddard, 1986
Box 2036
1986-3 Main Street (NBC), Euthanasia; Nancy Cruzan, 1986
Box 2036
1986-4 Phil Donahue, AIDS Testing; Nan Hunter, 1986
Box 2036
1986-5 Phil Donahue, various shows, Drug Testing; Ira Glasser, 1986
Box 2036
1986-6 ICWU Convention, Drug Testing in the Workplace; Ira Glasser, others, 1986
Box 2036
1986-7 ICWU Convention, Drug Testing in the Workplace; Ira Glasser, others, 1986
Box 2036
1987-1 MacNeil Lehrer, Preventative Detention: Jail Without Bail; Al Bronstein, 1987/1/21
Box 2037
1987-2 Bill Moyers Documentary, In Search of the Constitution: National Defense, Drugs, Abortion, etc., 1987/6/7
Box 2037
1987-2a Bill Moyers Documentary, In Search of the Constitution: 1987 v. the Constitution, 1987/6/7
Box 2037
1987-3 Indiana CLU TV ad, Know Your Rights about the Bill of Rights, 1987/8/20
Box 2037
1987-4 C-SPAN, Nomination of Robert Bork: ACLU opposes; Norman Dorsen, Ira Glasser, Halperin, Powell, 1987/8/31
Box 2037
1987-5 We The People 200, The Constitutional Gala, 1987/10/16
Box 2037
1987-6 We The People 200, The Constitutional Gala, 1987/10/16
Box 2037
1987-7 Bill Moyers Special Report, The Secret Government… The Constitution in Crisis, Iran Contra Affair (Pt. 1), 1987/11/4
Box 2037
1987-8 Bill Moyers Special Report, The Secret Government… The Constitution in Crisis, Iran Contra Affair (Pt. 2), 1987/11/4
Box 2037
1987-9 Town Meeting, Race and the Constitution: A Panel; Wade Henderson, 11/12/1987
Box 2037
1987-10 CBS News Nightwatch, Abortion and Forced C- sections; Lynn Paltrow, Dec. 1987
Box 2037
1987-11 Good Morning America, Reproductive Freedom: Forced C-sections; Lynn Paltrow, 12/2/1987
Box 2037
1987-12 CNN - Sonya Live, Abortions and father's rights; Lynn Paltrow, 1987
Box 2037
1987-13 CCLU Documentary, The Death Penalty; Bill Olds, Diane Rust-Tierney, others, 1987
Box 2038
1987-14 Firing Line, The Legalization of Drugs; Ira Glasser, 1987
Box 2038
1987-15 Phil Donahue, The Ku Klux Klan's right to be on television; Ira Glasser, Hosea Williams, 1987
Box 2038
1987-16 Documentary Program, Justice Is A Constant Struggle; Ira Glasser, 1987
Box 2038
1987-17 This Week with David Brinkley, Bork Nomination, 1987
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1987-17a This Week with David Brinkley, Bork Nomination; Norman Dorsen, 1987
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1988-1 Geraldo, Forced C-sections; Lynn Paltrow, Jan. 1988
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1988-2 WCBS News (Channel 2), DYFS: Division of Youth and Family Services; New Jersey government, 1988/2/24-6
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1988-3 Phil Donahue, Homeless or Mentally Ill: Joyce Brown; Norman Siegel, Rob Levy, Spring 1988
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1988-4 Phil Donahue, Faith Healing or Child Abuse; Marcia Robinson Lowry, 1988/5/17
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1988-5 Morton Downey Jr., Gun Control; Steve Hyman, 1988/6/9
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1988-6 Phil Donahue, Censorship: Harold Washington painting, etc.; Harvey Grossman, 1988/6/14
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1988-7 CNN coverage, Republican National Convention; Pat Robertson, Aug. 1988
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1988-8 ABC Town Meeting, Legalization of Drugs: with Ted Koppel; Dershowitz, Buckley, others, 1988/9/13
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1988-9 Town Meeting II, The Legalization of Drugs, 1988/9/13
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1988-10 Crossfire, Bush's attacks on the ACLU; Danny Goldberg, Fall 1988
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1988-11 C-SPAN coverage, Speech to the National Press Club; Ira Glasser, 1988/10/6
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(Items 12-14 removed: duplicates)
1988-15 Headlines on Trial, Mothers' Rights v. Fetuses Rights; Lynn Paltrow, 1988/10/26
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1988-16 Travelling Hopefully, Roger Baldwin and the ACLU, a film by John Avildsen; Roger Baldwin, 1988

[Note: A 1” archival videotape copy of this videotape is located at end of last range of ACLU Records]

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1988-17 ACLU PSAS, Card-Carrying Members; Burt Lancaster, Jill Eikenberry, Michael Tucker, Sep. 1988
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1989 Biennial Convention
1 Opening Plenary
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2 Civil Liberties and The Drug Crisis (NY Office Copy)
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3 Civil Liberties and The Drug Crisis
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4 Public Education on the Bill of Rights
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5 Racism on the Rise
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6 Today's Challenge to the Bill of Rights
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7 Closing Banquet
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8 National and Affiliate Reports
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9 Freedom Follies; Melissa Goes to Madison, WI
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1989-1 ABC News Nightline, Capital Punishment; Henry Schwarzschild, 1989/1/23
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1989-2 Oprah Winfrey, Pornography; Barry Lynn, 1989/2/7
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1989-3 People are Talking, Capital Punishment in NY; Henry Schwarzschild, 1989/3/9
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1989-3 People are Talking, Drug Testing in Public High Schools; Loren Siegel, 1989/3/14
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1989-4 It's Your Business, Crime and Punishment and Prisons; Alvin Bronstein and Ed Meese, 1989/4/2
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1989-5 ABC News Nightline, Evictions from Public Housing for Drug Use; John Powell, 1989/4/1
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1989-5 ABC News Nightline, Corporate Spying; Ira Glasser, 1989/4/1
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1989-6 People are Talking, Pornography; Lorraine Stanley, 1989/5/18
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1989-7 Crossfire, Arresting the Parents of Criminals; Ramona Ripson, Spring 1989
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1989-8 Geraldo, Pregnancy Police; Lynn Paltrow, 1989/5/2
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1989-9 Taking Liberties, Glimpses of the ACLU; Everybody, 1989/6/1
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1989-10 Donahue, Flag Burning; Ira Glasser, Bill Kunstler, Greg Johnson and Bob Dornan, 1989/6
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1989-11 Sonya! Live from L.A., Capital Punishment for the Young and Retarded; Henry Schwarzschild, Jun. 1989
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1989-12 CNN Live, Arresting Pregnant Women for Drug Use/Child Abuse; Lynn Paltrow, 1989/7/13
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1989-13 CNN Live, Flag Burning and Life Amendments; John Sununu Press Conference, Jul. 1989
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1989-14 People are Talking, Punishing the Parents of Juvenile Criminals; Norman Siegel, Jul. 1989
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1989-15 Entertainment Tonight, Racial Hatred Movies, Klan TV; Ira Glasser; ABC Documentary “Black in White America”, Race Relations, Aug. 1989

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1989-16 ACLU Crime Conference, Keynote Adress; Sam Dash, 1989/9/14
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1989-17A Firing Line, “Was the Supreme Court Wrong About Flag Burning?” Ira Glasser, 1989/9/1
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1989-17B Firing Line, “Was the Supreme Court Wrong About Flag Burning?” Ira Glasser, 1989/9/1
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1989-17C Firing Line, “Was the Supreme Court Wrong About Flag Burning?” Ira Glasser, 1989/9/1
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1989-18 ACLU Censorship Video, Censorship; None, 1989/10/1
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1989-19 Jane Wallace Show, Punishing Parents of Criminals; Jay Jacobson, 1989/11/2
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1989-20 FNN Focus, Legalization of Drugs; Loren Siegel, 1989/11/4
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1989-21 Wisconsin Seminar, Free Expression; Eunice Edgar, 1989/11/4
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1989-22 Saturday Night with Connie Chung, Minors' Abortion Rights; Janet Benshoof, 1989/11/1
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1989-23 CBS Morning News, FBI Spying on Innocent People; Frank Askin, 1989/11/2
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1989-24 People are Talking, Women in the Army; Isabelle Katz Pinzler, 1989/11/2
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1989-25 C-SPAN Coverage, Minors' Abortion Rights; Jane Hodgson and Simon Heller, 1989/11/2
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1989-26 MacNeil-Lehrer, Minors' Abortion Rights; Janet Benshoof, 1989/11/2
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1989-27 South Africa Now, Immigration of South African Dissidents; Lucas Guttentag, 1989/11/2
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1989-28 Network Coverage, Nancy Cruzan's Right to Die; William Colby, 1989/12/6
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1989-29 C-SPAN SCOTUS Review, Nancy Cruzan's Right to Die; William Colby, 1989/12/9
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1989-30 PBS Frontline, Nancy Cruzan's Right to Die; William Colby, Everett Koop, Nat Hentoff and Fred Friendly, 1989/12/13
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1989-31 ABC World News Tonight, Sex Discrimination in the Work Place; Joan Bertin, 1989/12/1
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1989-32 Northern California Clips, Various; Various, Apr.-Nov. 1989
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1990-1 VH-1 Reefer Madness Redux, The Current Drug Crackdown; Loren Siegel, Jan. 1990
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1990-2 CNN Coverage, The War on Drugs; George Bush, Joseph Biden, 1990/1/27
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1990-3A Taking Liberties II, Glimpses of the ACLU, 1990/2/1
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1990-3B Taking Liberties II, Glimpses of the ACLU, 1990/2/1
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1990-3C Taking Liberties II, Glimpses of the ACLU, 1990/2/1
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1990-4 Collected Footage, The War on Drugs; for Loren Siegel, 1990/2/1
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1990-5 Cityscope, Drug Testing; Loren Siegel, 1990/2/23
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1990-6 Jane Wallace Show, Drug Testing; Loren Siegel, 1990/2/12
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1990-7A The Constitution: That Delicate Balance, Drugs, Crime, etc., Nadine Strossen (first 2 of 4) 1990/2/5
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1990-7B The Constitution: That Delicate Balance, Drugs, Crime, etc.; Nadine Strossen (last 2 of 4), 1990/2/19
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1990-8 ABC News/McNeil-Lehrer, Sobriety Checkpoints; Mark Granzotto, 1990/2/27
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1990-9 Press Conference, Children's Rights in Kansas; Marcia Robinson Lowry, Feb. 1990
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1990-10 Federalist Society Debate, The ACLU's Mission and Integrity; Norman Dorsen and William Donohue, 1990/3/8
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1990-11 NBC NewsCenter 4, Spying at Home: Secret Surveillance Devices; Loren Siegel, 1990/3/12
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1990-12 CBS News Nightwatch, Death Penalty; Henry Schwarzschild, 1990/3/28
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1990-13 Press Conference, Children's Rights in Pennsylvania; Marcia Robinson Lowry, 1990/4/3
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1990-14 The Eleventh Hour, Child Abuse; Marcia Robinson Lowry, 1990/4/9
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1990-15 Geraldo, Parental Consent; Janet Benshoof, 1990/4/12
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1990-15 Oprah Winfrey, Corporal Punishment; Paul Denenfield, 1990/4/26
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1990-16 Joan Rivers, Publishing Names of Prostitutes; Deborah Ellis, 1990/4/26
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1990-17 ABC News Nightline, Drunk Driving Roadblocks; Mark Granzotto, 1990/5/25
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1990-18 Sonya Live on CNN, Punishing People Who Commit Crimes Because They Have a Disease; Nadine Strossen, 1990/6/12
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1990-19 ABC World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News, Good Morning America, Drunk Driving Roadblocks; Nadine Strossen, 1990/6/15
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1990-20 The Koppel Report, “Drugs, Crime, and Doing Time”; None, 1990/9/5
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1990-21 America's Drug Forum, A War on Drugs or a War on Constitutional Rights?; Ira Glasser, Sep. 1990
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1990-22 Firing Line, Death Penalty; Henry Schwarzschild, 1990/10/6
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1990-22 ABC World News Tonight, Tacit Speech Codes; Brady Williamson, 1990/11/1
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1990-23 CNBC-McLaughlin, The ACLU's Integrity; Ira Glasser, 1990/10/1
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1990-24 ACLU Press Conference after Rust v. Sullivan, Abortion Counseling; Rachael Pine and Laurence Tribe, 1990/10/3
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1990-25 C-SPAN Coverage, Rust v. Sullivan; Rachael Pine, 1990/10/3
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1990-26 MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, Rust v. Sullivan; Laurence Tribe, 1990/10/3
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1990-27 Sonya Live on CNN, Black Male Only Schools; Norman Siegel, Nov. 1990
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1990-28 ACLU Press Conference, A State of Emergency in the American Workplace; Lew Maltby, 1990/12/1
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1990-29 First Amendment Congress, 45 Words of Freedom: The Meaning of the First Amendment; Allan Adler, 1990
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1990-30 Idaho CLU Appearance, Anti-abortion Laws; Jack Van Valkenbergh, 1990
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1991-1 ABC World News Tonight, Civil Liberties in the Persian Gulf; Ira Glasser, 1991/1/28
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1991-1 MacNeil-Lehrer Report, Police Brutality in L.A.; Ramona Ripston, 1991/3/15
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1991-2 ABC News 20/20, Gays in the Military, 1991/3/8
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1991-3 Crossfire, Justify the Video: Obscenity in Madonna's Video; Danny Goldberg, 1991/3/18
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1991-4 CBS Evening News, Police Brutality in L.A.; Ramona Ripston, 1991/3/20
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1991-5 Sonya Live on CNN, Coerced Confessions; Steve Shapiro, 1991/3/26
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1991-5 Donahue Show, Forced Contraception; Julie Mertus, 1991/3/28
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1991-6 CNN Crier and Co., Victim's Rights; Vivian Berger, 1991/4/16
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1991-7 Thirteen Live, Children's Rights; Marcia Robinson Lowry, 1991/5/15
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1991-8 C-SPAN Coverage, Rust v. Sullivan Press Conference; Rachael Pine, 1991/5/23
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1991-9 PBS Special: Safe Speech, Free Speech and the University, Hate Speech on Campus; Nadine Strossen, 1991/6/6
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1991-9 ABC World News Tonight, Black Male Only Academies; Howard Simon, 1991/8/14
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1991-10 CBS News Nightwatch, Racist Speech on Campus; Nadine Strossen, Aug. 1991
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1991-11 ABC World News Tonight, Lifestyle Discrimination; Lew Maltby, 1991/9/11
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1991-12 Heart of the Matter (ABC Sunday Morning Talk Show), Drug and Impairment Testing; John Rosenthal, 1991/9/15
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1991-13 C-SPAN Coverage, The ACLU's Changing Strategy; Steve Shapiro, 1991/10/3
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1991-14A Press Club Briefing, The ACLU's Changing Strategy; Legal and Project Directors (full length), 1991/10/3
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1991-14B Press Club Briefing, The ACLU's Changing Strategy; Legal and Project Directors (cut 1), 1991/10/3
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1991-14C Press Club Briefing, The ACLU's Changing Strategy; Legal and Project Directors (cut 2 and 3), 1991/10/3
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1991-15 Sonya Live on CNN, Gay and Lesbian Weddings and Religious Freedom; Bill Rubenstein, 1991/10/7
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1991-15 Larry King Live on CNN, Sexual Harassment in the Workplace; Nadine Strossen, 1991/10/1
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1991-16 Sonya Live on CNN, Lee v. Weisman (Graduation Prayers); Arthur Spitzer, 1991/11/1
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1991-16 MacNeil-Lehrer, Lee v. Weisman (Graduation Prayers); Nadine Strossen, 1991/11/6
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1991-17 Pozner/Donahue, The Sorry State of the Bill of Rights in America; Ira Glasser, 1991/11/3
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1991-17 Firing Line, The Bill of Rights; Ira Glasser, 1991/11/13
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1991-18 C-SPAN Coverage, Guam Obstetricians v. ADA; Anita Arriola, 1991/11/4
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1991-19 CNN Coverage, Reproductive Freedom: Planned Parenthood v. Casey; Kitty Kolbet, 1991/11/7
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1991-20 Press Conference, ACLU Arts Censorship Project; 1991/12/9
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1991-21 NBC Nightly News, Hate Speech on Campuses; Nadine Strossen, 1991/12/9
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1991-21 CNN World Today, Bicentennial of the Bill of Rights; Nadine Strossen, 1991/12/14
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1991-21 NBC Sunday Today, Bicentennial of the Bill of Rights; Ira Glasser, 1991/12/1
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1991-22 Crossfire, The Bill of Rights, Ira Glasser, 1991/12/2
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1991-23 MacNeil Lehrer, Stroh's Sexual Harassment Suit; Matthew Stark, 1991/12/2
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1992-1 Sonya Live on CNN, Sexually Explicit Speech; Marjorie Heins, 1992/1/2
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1992-1 Crossfire, David Duke's Candidacy; Steve Shapiro, 1992/1/3
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1992-2 NBC Today Show, Places to Smoke; Lew Maltby, 1992/1/3
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1992-3 Sonya Live on CNN, Reproductive Freedom; Kathryn Kolbert, 1992/1/13
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1992-4 UC/Davis, Free Speech on Campus; Nadine Strossen, 1992/1/14
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1992-5 Oprah Winfrey, Foster Care, Adam Mann; None, 1992/1/15
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1992-5 ABC News 20/20, Workplace Lifestyle Discrimination; Lew Maltby, 1992/1/17
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1992-6 CNN Daywatch, Casey v. Planned Parenthood, 1992/1/21
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1992-7 NBC Nightly News and Charlie Rose, Casey v. Planned Parenthood; Kathryn Kolbert and Nadine Strossen, 1992/1/21
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1992-8 ABC News and Nightline, Casey v. Planned Parenthood; Kathryn Kolbert, 1992/1/21
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1992-9 Columbia University Seminars, That Delicate Balance II Our Bill of Rights and the First Amendment and Hate Speech, 1992/1/29
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1992-10 Keppler Associates, Censorship; Strossen/Meese Debate, 1992/1/30
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1992-11 Larry King Live on CNN, Pornography-Victim Compensation; Nadine Strossen, 1992/1/31
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1992-12 PBS Bill Moyers Special, Hate on Trial; Norman Siegel, 1992/2/4
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1992-13 Charlie Rose, Clarence Thomas' Jurisprudence; John Powell, 1992/2/28
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1992-14 ACLU/NC Video Clips, Various, 1992/2/3 - 3/3
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1992-15 Larry King Live on CNN, Police Reform in L.A.; Ramona Ripston, 1992/3/13
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1992-16 WVCLU Video Clips, Various; Various, 1992/6/9-03
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1992-17 CNN, “Kris Hansen and Clint Bullock”, 1992/4/1
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1992-18 CBS Evening News, AMA Report on Drug Testing; Lew Maltby, 1992/4/2
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1992-19 March for Women's Lives; Nadine Strossen Remarks, 1992/4/5
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1992-20 Sonya Live on CNN, Forced Contraception; Lynn Paltrow, 1992/4/27
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1992-21 Charlie Rose, Rodney King Verdict; Nadine Strossen, Roy Innes, David Lewis and Marty Adelman, 1992/4/29
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1992-22 Donohue, Rodney King Verdict; Ira Glasser, Al Sharpton and John Conyers, 1992/4/30
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1992-23 Charlie Rose, Communitarianism; Nadine Strossen and Amitai Etzioni, 1992/5/18
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1992-24 KING-TV Seattle News, “Whose Life is It?”, 1992/5/18 - 5/20
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1992-25 Good Afternoon, Syracuse, NY; Nadine Strossen, 1992/5/20
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1992-26 NBC Sunday Today, Communitarianism; Nadine Strossen and Amitai Etzioni, 1992/5/24
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1992-27 Sonya Live on CNN, Anti-Stalking Laws; Loren Siegel, 1992/6/8
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1992-28 CBS The People, HIV: Should Your Doctor be Tested?; Liz Cooper, 1992/6/13
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1992-29 CBS Morning News, Anti-Stalking Laws; Loren Siegel, 1992/6/18
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1992-30 CNN Crier and Co., Supreme Court Term 1991-92; Nadine Strossen, 1992/6/26
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1992-31 PBS, The Fourth Amendment: Search and Seizure; Nadine Strossen, 1992/10/5
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1992-32 ACLU News Conference, Orlando, FL, 1992/10/2
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1992-33 A New Social Agenda?; Jerry Falwell and Nadine Strossen, 1992/11/1
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1992-34 Clemency Video for Governor Wilson; Robert Harris, 1992
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1992-35A Hard Drugs, Hard Choices Part 1, 1992
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1992-35B Hard Drugs, Hard Choices Part 2, 1992
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1992-36 Hoover Institution, Searching for Alternative Drug Control Policy in the U.S., 1992
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1992-37 PBS Frontline, The Death of Nancy Cruzan, 1992
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1995-1 Keeping Freedom's Flame Alive, ACLU Box, 1995
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Audio Tapes
Audio Tapes (7 Inch Reels)
1 Michael Harrington and Fulton Lewis III Debate at the University of Connecticut, 1961/03/00
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2 Michael Harrington and Fulton Lewis III Debate at the University of Connecticut (cont'd), 1961/03/00
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What is Un-American? TV Debate with David Susskind as Moderator, Fulton Lewis III, M. Stanton Evans Godfrey Schmidt, Arthur Cohen, John H. Faulk and Frank Donner, 1961/10/00

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4 Mazey and Fulton Lewis III Debate at Delta College Michigan, 1963/03/21
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5 “Hate is a Wrong-Way Street” WINS Documentary Editorial, Part I of II, 0000/08/25
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6 “Hate is a Wrong-Way Street” WINS Documentary Editorial, Part II of II, 0000/08/27
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7 Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee - Publicity - Blurb sheets, files, 1966/04/00
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8 ACLU Biennial Conference, Loeb Student Center New York University, 1970/06/03
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9 ACLU Biennial Conference, Loeb Student Center New New York University, 1970/06/03
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10 ACLU Biennial Conference, Womankind - Sue Ross on Women and Criminal Law, 1970/06/04
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11 ACLU Biennial Conference, Loeb Student Center New York University - Afternoon Sessions, 1970/06/06
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12 ACLU Biennial Conference, Loeb Student Center New, 1970/06/06
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13 Changes Part I-A, 1970/11/22
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14 Changes Part I-B, 1970/11/22
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Changes Part II-A, 1970/11/22
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16 Board Meeting - Morning and Afternoon Sessions, 1970/09/29
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17 Board Meeting - Impeachment Sides 1 and 2, 1974/06/12
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18 Board Meeting - Impeachment Sides 3 and 4, 1974/06/12
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19 Board Meeting - Impeachment Sides 5 and 6, 1974/06/12
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20 Board Meeting, 1976/10/02
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21 Board Meeting, 1976/10/03
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22 Board Meeting, 1976/11/00
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23 Board Meeting, 1976/12/00
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24 Interview with Grooer or Butner on Behavior Modification, undated
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25-27 no title(s), undated
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Audio Tapes (5 Inch Reels)
1 Bill of Rights Radio Spots, 1961/11/28
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2 ACLU Public Service Announcements, 1970/08/00
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3 ACLU Public Service Announcements, undated
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4 Public Service Announcements - New Rochelle, NY, undated
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5 no title, undated
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6 no title, undated
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7 Roger Baldwin, Seg. 2-3, Show #148, undated
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Audio Tapes (3 Inch Reels)
1 CBS TV interview with Roger Baldwin, 1970/01/21
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Audio Cassette Tapes
Biennial Conference, 1985
1 Opening Session; Roland O'Hare and Norman Dorsen, 1985/06/00
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2 Assaults on Bill of Rights; Ira Glasser, 1985/06/00
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3 Organizational Issues; Panel, 1985/06/00
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4 Abortion/Anti-Abortion Rights; G. Thomas, M.P. Hames and A. Locklear, 1985/06/00
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5 Women, Pornography and the 1st Amendment; J. Crawford, C. MacKinnon and H. Pilpel, 1985/06/00
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6A Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses; Rev. Dean Kelley, 1985/06/00
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6B Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses; Rev. Dean Kelley, 1985/06/00
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7 Gay Rights; D. Waxse, M. Kegel and A. Rubenfeld, 1985/06/00
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8 Women's Rights; T. Young, I. Pinzler and S. Post, 1985/06/00
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9 Crime in the Streets; S. Walker, L. Siegel and P. Rosner, 1985/06/00
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10 Capital Punishment; M. Gaines, G. Kendall, D. Davidson and H. Schwarzschild, 1985/06/00
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11 Book Censorship; P. Meyer, L. Katz and M. Weidler, 1985/06/00
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12 Poor People's Rights; R. Carrigan, P. Strum, G. Guerrero, L. Monroe and R. Ripston, 1985/06/00
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13 Government Surveillance; R. Schoen, J. Berman, and J. Miller, 1985/06/00
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14 Immigration Rights; M. Gale, W. Henderson and M. Metcalfe, 1985/06/00
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15 Withholding and Receiving Medical Treatment; M. Gallwey, V. Milstein and M. Gradison, 1985/06/00
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16 Children's Rights; L. Grossman, C. Hansen and B. Steinhardt, 1985/06/00
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17 Rights of the Disabled; J. Fiske, A. Gartner and S. Pedler, 1985/06/00
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18 Race Discrimination; E. Feingold, R. Larson and S. Kurjiaka, 1985/06/00
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19 The New Imperial Presidency; A. Lewis, 1985/06/00
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20A Abuses in the Workplace; Ed Asner and Panel, 1985/06/00
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20B Abuses in the Workplace; Ed Asner and Panel, 1985/06/00
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21A Nuclear Arms/Civil Liberties; W. Lynch, M. Schachter and J. McTerran, 1985/06/00
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21B Nuclear Arms/Civil Liberties; W. Lynch, M. Schachter and J. McTerran, 1985/06/00
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22 International Law and Civil Liberties; F. Haiman and P. Hoffman, 1985/06/00
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23A Final Plenary Session; Rolland O'Hare, 1985/06/00
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23B Final Plenary Session; Rolland O'Hare, 1985/06/00
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23C Final Plenary Session; Rolland O'Hare, 1985/06/00
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23D Final Plenary Session; Rolland O'Hare, 1985/06/00
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24A Lawyers Meeting, 1985/06/12
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24B Lawyers Meeting, 1985/06/12
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25-29 Board of Directors Meeting, Tapes A-E, 1985
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Biennial Conference, 1987
1A Opening Plenary Session
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2A Forums for Protecting Rights - Session 1, The Courts
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2B Forums for Protecting Rights - Session 1, The Courts
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3 Original Intent - Interpretation and the Constitutional Vision
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4 Death Penalty
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5 Immigration Rights
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6 Separation of Church and State
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7 Reproductive Freedom
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8 Rights of the Disabled
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9A Lawyers Meeting
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9B Lawyers Meeting
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10 Forums for Protecting Rights - Session 2 Public Opinion
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11 Forums for Protecting Rights - Session 3 The Legislatures
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12 Student's Rights in Schools
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13 Sex Discrimination
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14 Lesbian and Gay Rights
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15 Information and Privacy
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16 Drug Testing
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17 Prisoners' Rights
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18 Civil Liberties and Hysteria
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19 Civil Liberties in the Constitution's Third Century
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20 Constitution and White House - Secrecy v. Accountability
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21 Economic Rights
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22 Race Discrimination
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23 Censorship and Pornography
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24 Children's Rights
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25 AIDS Discrimination
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26 Banquet
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27A Final Plenary Session
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27B Final Plenary Session
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28 Freedom Brunch
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Biennial Conference, 1989
1 Today's Challenge to the Bill of Rights
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2A-2B Reproductive Freedom
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3 Surrogate Parenting
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4 Death Penalty
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5 Censorship
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6 Prisoners' Rights
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7 Privacy, Technology and Civil Liberties
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8 Rights of the Disabled
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9 AIDS and Civil Liberties - Litigation
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10 Immigration Rights
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11 Rights of Gays and Lesbians
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12 Children's Rights
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13 Women's Rights
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14 Separation of Church and State
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15 National Security and Civil Liberties
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16 AIDS and Civil Liberties - Legislation
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17 International Standards and Domestic Civil Liberties
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18 Worker's Rights
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19 ACLU Publications and Newsletters
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20A-20E Development Workshop
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21 Public Education
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22A-20D Legislative Issues and Lobbying
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23A-B Lawyers Meetings - Race/Gender
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24A Lawyers Meetings - Voting, Aids, New Strategies in Education
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24B Lawyers Meetings - Voting, Aids, New Strategies in Education
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25A-B Lawyers Meetings - Supreme Court Review
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26A Conference Banquet
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26B Conference Banquet
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27 National and Affiliate Report
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28 Public Education on the Bill of Rights
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29 Racism on the Rise
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30 A-B Civil Liberties and the Drug Crisis
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31 The Constitution and Economic Rights
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32 A-B First Voting Plenary
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33 A-C Final Voting Plenary
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Deprogramming
1-2 “Faith and Mind Control” Dr. John Clark and Dr. David Allen, 1976
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3 Radio Show with Galan Kelley on WFAS in Westchester, undated
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Film
16mm Film
1 NBC Today Show with John Chancellor, circa 1962
Box 2058
2 Cruel and Unjust Punishment, undated
Box 2058
3 Ira Glasser appearance on Phil Donahue, 1981
Box 2059
4 “The Challenge”, circa 1952
Box 2060
5 “Operation Abolition”, 1960
Box 2060
6 “All-American”, undated
Box 2060
7 “Operation Correction”, 1960
Box 2061
8 “Fact Forum Panel with William Buckley, Patrick Malin, Richard Combs and Prof. Hodges, undated
Box 2061
9 “An Artist's Report”, circa 1973
Box 2062
10 Donahue - Glasser and Moral Majority, 1982
Box 2062
11 Howe Case Exhibit Films, undated
Box 2063
12 Howe Case Exhibit Films, undated
(2 reels)
Box 2064
13 Unidentified, undated
Box 2064
Beta Video Cassettes
1 ACLU Public Service Announcements, 1978/11/28
Box 2065
2 This Week With David Brinkley; Capital Punishment, 1983/10/09
Box 2065
3 Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association; Death Penalty Litigation Conference, 1983
Box 2065
33 1/3 rpm and 45 rpm Records
1 Friday is a Great Day, 1950/12/13
(2 records) (33 1/3 rpm)
Box 2066
2 Civil Liberties - Educational Audio Visual, 1976
(3 records) (33 1/3 rpm)
Box 2066
3 For the Dignity of Man; A Salute to Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965
(45 rpm)
Box 2066
Microfilm
1 ACLU Press Release and Testimony of L. Speiser, undated
Box 2067
2-3 “Pressure For Freedom: The ACLU” Barton Bean, undated
Box 2067
Photographs
Assembly and Public Protest - Paul Robeson Peekskill Riots, 1949
(24 photos)
Box 2068
Biennial Conference, 1964
(23 photos)
Information on back of photos and negatives included.
Box 2068
Biennial Conference, 1966
(28 photos)
Negatives included.
Box 2069
Biennial Conference, 1979
(14 photos)
Box 2069
Clerical Staff, 1930's
(1 photo)
Box 2069
Censorship - Ellis Post Office censorship case, 1949/04/29
(1 photo)
Ellis holding box.
Box 2070
Censorship - “Flex-O-View” with viewer, 1950
(5 slides)
Box 2070
Censorship - “Desert Dancer” circa 1955
(1 slide)
Box 2070
Church/State - Scene from the Martin Luther motion picture, 1957
(1 photo)
Box 2070
Church/State - Rev. Liston Park, Snakehandler, Newport, IN, 1973
(2 photos)
Box 2070
Civil Rights Marches
(3 photos)
Box 2070
Freedom to Movement - Kani Abdul Hamid Nouri upon his release, 1951
(2 photos)
Box 2070
Freedom of Movement - Ryszard Eibel, 1958
(5 photos)
Box 2070
International Civil Liberties - Yamazate-ku, Koza, 1956
(1 photo)
Box 2070
Portraits
Adams, Ruth
(1 photo)
Box 2070
Angell, Ernest
(7 photos)
Box 2070
Baldwin, Roger
(2 photos)
Box 2070
Baldwin, Roger
(3 photos)
Box 2071
“Lively Libertarian”
(8 photos)
Box 2071
50th Birthday UPI photo
(3 photos)
Box 2071
Proofs
(8 photos)
Box 2071
Negatives
(1 photo)
Box 2071
Biddle, Francis
(2 photos)
Box 2071
Bierstadt, Robert
(1 photo)
Box 2071
Black, Algernon David
(1 photo)
Box 2071
Block, Herbert L.
(2 photos)
Box 2071
Brown, Ralph S.
(1 photo)
Box 2071
Burba, Elizabeth
(1 photo)
Box 2071
Portraits - Chaffe, Zecariah
(1 photo)
Box 2072
Clark, Ramsey
(4 photos)
Box 2072
Davidson, Dorothy
(1 photo)
Box 2072
DeSilver, Albert
(1 photo)
Box 2072
Dobie, Frank
(1 photo)
Box 2072
Emerson, Thomas
(4 photos)
Box 2072
Ennis, Edward J.
(3 photos)
Box 2072
Ernst, Morris
(2 photos)
Box 2072
Evans, Luther
(1 photo)
Box 2072
Ferman, Irving
(1 photo)
Box 2072
Fly, James Lawrence
(1 photo)
Box 2072
Fraenkel, Osmond
(3 photos)
Box 2072
Garbus, Martin
(1 photo)
Box 2072
Garrison, Lloyd K.
(1 photo)
Box 2072
Gellhorn, Walter
(1 photo)
Box 2072
Gunther, John
(1 photo)
Box 2072
Hacker, Louis
(1 photo)
Box 2072
Harris, Patricia
(1 photo)
Box 2072
Hays, Arthur Garfield
(6 photos)
Box 2072
Heckscher, August
(1 photo)
Box 2073
Hendel, Samuel
(1 photo)
Box 2073
Holmes, John Haynes
(1 photo)
Box 2073
Horne, Dr. Frank S.
(1 photo)
Box 2073
Huebsch, Benjamin
(2 photos)
Box 2073
Jacobs, Mrs. Yarnell
(1 photo)
Box 2073
Jones, Dr. John Paul
(1 photo)
Box 2073
Karpatkin, Marvin
(8 photos)
Box 2073
Kenyon, Judge Dorothy
(3 photos)
Box 2073
Kerney Jr., James
(1 photo)
Box 2073
McKay, Robert B.
(1 photo)
Box 2073
McNaughton, A.B.
(1 photo)
Box 2073
Mazey, Ernest
(1 photo)
Box 2073
Malin, Patrick Murphy
(9 photos)
Box 2073
Maslow, Will
(1 photo)
Box 2074
Meiklejohn, Alexander
(1 photo)
Box 2074
Meserve, Harry
(1 photo)
Box 2074
Metzenbaum, Howard M.
(1 photo)
Box 2074
Miller, Byron S.
(1 photo)
Box 2074
Miller, Reverend Edward
(1 photo)
Box 2074
Miller, Jay
(1 photo)
Box 2074
Millis, Walter
(1 photo)
Box 2074
Milner, Lucille
(2 photos)
Box 2074
Moore, William
(1 photo)
Box 2074
Morgan, Charles
(6 photos)
Box 2074
Neier, Aryeh
(2 photos)
Box 2074
Nelles, Walter
(1 photo)
Box 2074
Norton, Eleanor Holmes
(2 photos)
Box 2074
Parsons, Reverend Edward
(1 photo)
Box 2074
Pemberton, Jr., John de J.
(10 photos)
Box 2074
Pilpel, Harriet
(3 photos)
Box 2075
Pinkus, Craig
(1 photo)
Box 2075
Pitkin, Wolcott
(1 photo)
Box 2075
Pratt, Elliot
(1 photo)
Box 2075
Redfield, Emanuel
(1 photo)
Box 2075
Reitman, Alan
(5 photos)
Box 2075
Rice, Elmer
(2 photos)
Box 2075
Ross, William
(1 photo)
Box 2075
Rubin, Steve (with bombed out car)
(1 photo)
Box 2075
Schroeter, Leonard
(1 photo)
Box 2075
Schwartzschild, Henry
(2 photos)
Box 2075
Slaff, George
(1 photo)
Box 2075
Speiser, Lawrence
(2 photos)
Box 2075
Stevenson, Adlai
(2 photos)
Box 2075
Stokes, Helen
(1 photo)
Box 2075
Strickland, Ann
(1 photo)
Box 2075
Ten Eyck, Barent
(2 photos)
Box 2075
Tydings, Senator Joseph
(1 photo)
Box 2075
Wechsler, James
(1 photo)
Box 2075
Whiteside, Howard
(1 photo)
Box 2075
Williams, Edward Bennett
(1 photo)
Box 2075
Wood, L. Hollingsworth
(1 photo)
Box 2075
Wulf, Mel
(2 photos)
Box 2075
Group Photos
R. Baldwin, M. Tree, A. Macleish 12/3
(1 photo)
Box 2076
R. Baldwin, J. Pemberton, P. Malin
(1 photo)
Box 2076
R. Baldwin, A. Schlesinger
(1 photo)
Box 2076
P. Malin, A. Hays, G.W. Waring, E. Angell
(1 photo)
Box 2076
J. Pemberton, unidentified, (1963)
(1 photo)
Box 2076
S. Teller, C. Darrow, Brophy, (12/28)
(2 photos)
Box 2076
A. Hays (plus negative)
Box 2076
Professional Video Tape
1 The Rights of Americans, 1976
Box 2077
2 The Rights of Americans, 1976
Box 2078
3 The Rights of Americans, 1976
Box 2079
4 The Rights of Americans, 1976
Box 2080
5 The Rights of Americans, 1976
Box 2081
6 The Rights of Americans, 1976
Box 2082
7 The Rights of Americans, 1976
Box 2083
8 The Rights of Americans, 1976
Box 2084
Amnesty Spots, circa 1970s
Box 2085
Microfiche

Microfiche, index cards, and program guide for Microsources “The Bill of Rights in the 20th Century,” an instructional collection of primary source material, 1980

Box 2085A

Oversized Materials
ACLU Printed Materials
Civil Liberties, 1931-1992
Box 2086-2088
Affiliate Publications, various
Box 2089-2094
Miscellaneous, various
Box 2095-2096
Subject Files
Printed Material culled from Series 2, Project Files and Series 3, Subject Files includes:
Civil Rights, Government, International Civil Liberties, Labor and Business, Mass Communications, and Mental Health Issues
Box 2097
Military Rights (Amnesty Project) and Miscellaneous
Box 2098
Native Americans and Women's Rights
Box 2099
Outside Organizations
AFL-CIO News - Clarion, various
Box 2100
Civil Rights News - Just Us, various
Box 2101
Lancaster Independent - Quash, various
Box 2102
Rights - Miscellaneous pamphlets and posters, various
Box 2103
One Oversized Folder

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