Document Group: CDGA

Size: 30 linear inches

Provenance: Received 1949, 1953? [source unknown]

Restrictions: None

Microfilm: None

Finding Aid: Checklist prepared by Anne Yoder, June 1999

This checklist is the property of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection.

Introduction

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 Murphey Malin.

Today, the ACLU is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, 275,000-member public interest organization, devoted to protecting the basic civil liberties of all Americans, and extending them to those people for whom they have traditionally been denied. Its national office is in New York City, with a legislative office in Washington, D.C. It has a 50-state network of staffed affiliate offices, 300 chapters, and regional offices in Dallas and Atlanta. The ACLU has more than 60 staff attorneys collaborating with 2,000 volunteer attorneys to handle close to 6,000 cases per year.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU Papers are held at the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University.

Contents of Collection

Box 1

Program work & literature, etc., 1917-1927

Correspondence re: "Professional Patriots," 1927-1928

Program work & literature, etc., 1928-1929

Box 2

Program work & literature, etc., 1930-1934

Conference on Civil Liberties Under the New Deal, 1934

Program work & literature, etc., 1935-1936

Box 3

Program work & literature, etc., , 1937-1938

Box 4

Program work & literature, etc., 1950-1969

Box 5

Program work & literature, etc., 1970-1973

"ACLU Reports: Corporal Punishment in the Public Schools," March 1972 [catalogued]

"ACLU Reports: The Abuses of the Military Chaplaincy," May 1973 [catalogued]

Program work & literature, etc., 1974-current

Program work & literature, etc., undated

Misc. newsletters: includes "Inside ACLU," 1968-1970 [incomplete set]

Box 6

American Civil Liberties Foundation, 1976-

American Civil Liberties Foundation: Project on Amnesty, 1973 

American Civil Liberties Foundation: Project on Amnesty -- "ACLU Reports: The Clemency

Program," ca. 1974-1975

 

American Civil Liberties Foundation: Project on National Security & Civil Liberties

 

ACLU - D.C. (Washington)

 

ACLU - CALIFORNIA: includes "A Newsletter of the ACLU [Santa Cruz]," Feb. 1992

 

ACLU - ILLINOIS: Chicago Civil Liberties Committee, 1934-1950; includes newsletter "Civil Liberties

News," 1947-1950 [incomplete set]

 

ACLU - ILLINOIS: American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois newsletter "The Brief," Summer 1987

(vol. 44:3)

 

ACLU - INDIANA: Indiana American Civil Liberties Union newsletter "The Advocate," Spring/

Summer 1987 (vol. 4:1)

 

ACLU - MASSACHUSETTS: Civil Liberties Committee of Massachusetts, 1921-1948; includes

newsletter "Civil Liberties Bulletin," Oct. 1940

 

ACLU - NEW YORK: New York City Branch, ACLU, 1939

 

ACLU - OREGON: American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon "Newsletter," Oct. 1987 (vol. 15:3),

March 1988 (vol. 16:1) & Summer 1988 (vol. 6:2)

 

ACLU - PENNSYLVANIA: Pennsylvania Civil Liberties Committee, 1930-1935; includes "News Letter,"

Dec. 1930 (vol. 1:1) - May 1931 (vol. 1:5), Feb. 1933 (vol. 3:1) - May 1933 (vol. 3:4)

[incomplete sets]

 

ACLU - PENNSYLVANIA: ACLU of Pennsylvania, 1968-1979

 

ACLU - PENNSYLVANIA: ACLU of Pennsylvania, 1980-current; includes newsletter "Civil

Liberties Record," Spring 1990

 

ACLU - PENNSYLVANIA: American Civil Liberties Foundation of Pennsylvania

 

ACLU - PENNSYLVANIA: Delaware County Chapter, 1960; includes newsletter "Civil Liberties

Bulletin," July 1960 (No. 1); and "Newsletter," Feb. 1961 - March 1973 [incomplete set]

 

ACLU - PENNSYLVANIA: Philadelphia Civil Liberties Committee, ca. 1920-1940

 

ACLU - PENNSYLVANIA: Greater Philadelphia Branch, 1951-1979; includes "Legislative

Bulletin," Sept.-Oct. 1951

 

ACLU - PENNSYLVANIA: Greater Philadelphia Branch, 1980-current

 

ACLU - PENNSYLVANIA: ACLU Pittsburgh, 1970-1979; includes "Newsletter," Nov.-Dec.

1974 (vol. 1:1-2)

 

ACLU - TENNESSEE: American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee; includes newsletter "Civil

Liberties and TACLA Chapters," Fall 1973

 

ACLU - WASHINGTON: American Civil Liberties Union of Washington, 1971

 

Roger Baldwin biographical material; Roger Baldwin Foundation

See also:

American Civil Liberties Union, National Committee on Conscientious Objectors (DG 22)

Dana, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (DG 11)

War Resisters League (DG 40)

American Union Against Militarism (DG 4)

James, Charles (CDGA)

Olmsted, Allen (DG 95)

Olmsted, Mildred Scott (DG 82)

Book Collection

Periodical Collection 

Swarthmore College Peace Collection

For more information, contact Wendy Chmielewski, Curator, at wchmiel1@ swarthmore.edu or call 610-328-8557.

For other resources, see the college's online library catalog (Tripod). 

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