Compare Constellations

Lyman R. Bradley academic freedom case records, 1947-1961.

Title: Lyman R. Bradley academic freedom case records, 1947-1961.

The records of the Lyman R. Bradley academic freedom case detail the action of New York University in hearing charges and subsequent suspension of a tenured associate professor who was convicted of contempt of Congress in 1948. The collection consists of administrative records retained by three offices of the University at the highest level of governance: the Office of the Dean of Washington Square College; the Office of the Chancellor; and the Office of the Vice Chancellor, who as Secretary and Clerk of the University Council (later Board of Trustees) maintained the Council files. Harry Woodburn Chase was Chancellor during this period, Harold O. Voorhis was Vice Chancellor, and James Madden was Council Treasurer, as well as Acting Chancellor 1951-1952. The records reflect traditional patterns of leadership and responsibility as well as unusual postures of initiative, decisiveness and defensiveness in response to the political climate of the period. These conditions along with the unique circumstances of this case provoked an examination of the privileges of academic freedom and the responsibility of tenure. This collection contains a consecutive record of hearings of faculty and University Council sitting in judgment of one of their own. The role of legal counsel is significant, and the consultation with attorneys outside the University attests to the complexity of the case. Attorneys involved include Royal W. France, Stuart Updike, John W. Gerdes, Fowler V. Harper, and Arad Riggs.The collection contains primarily correspondence, committee and hearing reports, legal documents and subject files. Additionally, there is a significant assortment of news clippings, handbills and exhibits documenting the student and political philosophies of the period. The collection contains correspondence, committee and hearing reports, drafts, exhibits, handbills and posters, legal documents, memoranda, minutes, newspapers and news clippings, printed material, publications, subject files, telegrams and transcripts of hearings and trials. Among the handbills, posters, and newspapers are a few belonging to NYU student organizations. It also contains postcards and letters from Bradley's supporters outside New York University. The American Association of University Professors supported Bradley. There is also some material concerning the emigration to Poland of a New York University professor of English, Margaret Schlauch.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 linear ft.3 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/476089240 View

Marzani, Carl. Papers, 1890-1994 (bulk 1935-1975).

Title: Papers, 1890-1994 (bulk 1935-1975).

Contains correspondence, published and unpublished writings, business records, clippings and ephemera, FBI files, memorabilia and other materials documenting Marzani's personal, political, literary and business activities. Series I, Biographical, contains Marzani family memorabilia, student writings, and the journals of Carl and Edith Marzani from their 1938 world tour. Series II, Trial/Prison, contains Marzani's FBI file, and materials relating to his defense campaign. Series III. Correspondence, contains personal and political correspondence, and includes his prison correspondence, and some correspondence with Marzani's associates maintained by his son Tony after Carl's death. Series IV, Writings, contains drafts of, and notes for, various manuscripts. The bulk of the material pertains to the major project of his later years, the unpublished work titled George Orwell. This work principally dealt with the origins and history of the Cold War, and also critiqued Orwell's reportage of the Spanish Civil War. There are also materials pertaining to The Promise of Eurocommunism, The Survivor, and other works.

ArchivalResource: 18.5 linear ft. (38 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/476038157 View

Guide to the National Lawyers Guild Records, 1921-2014

Title: Guide to the National Lawyers Guild Records, 1921-2014

The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) was founded in 1937 as an association of progressive lawyers and jurists who believed that lawyers had a major role to play in reconstructing legal values by emphasizing human rights over property rights. The Guild is the oldest and most extensive network of public interest and human rights activists working within the legal system. This collection includes early administrative records of the Guild, primarily those of its National Office and New York City Chapter, as well as materials describing legal and political activities of many of the Guild's chapters and committees. The bulk of the collection, however, is focused on the court case which revealed that the Guild had been the target of a forty-year covert Federal Bureau of Investigation campaign of surveillance, infiltration and intimidation (National Lawyers Guild v. Attorney General, 1977-1989). Through this legal action, the Guild successfully compelled the release of more than 400,000 pages of FBI documentation on the Guild and its members. This material, along with associated case files, is included in the collection.

ArchivalResource: 311.25 Linear Feet in 315 boxes, 8 sound discs (cd), 8 archived websites

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_191/tam_191.html View

Carl Aldo Marzani Papers [1890]-1994, (bulk 1935-1975).

Title: Carl Aldo Marzani Papers [1890]-1994, (bulk 1935-1975).

Carl Marzani (1912-1994)was an Italian-American immigrant radical and briefly a Communist Party, USA organizer on New York City's Lower East Side. He served in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and briefly thereafter in the State Department. He was also a political documentary filmmaker, the author of six books and numerous articles, and as an editor and publisher, first translated and published portions of the work of the Italian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci. Marzani served almost ... The papers principally contain personal, political, and business correspondence and writings, and are organized into seven series: I. Biographical: Childhood & Youth; II. Trial/Prison Papers; III. Correspondence; IV. Writings; V. Political Activities; VI. Publishing: Cameron Associates, Marzani & Munsell; VII. Addendum. Eighteen audiocassette interviews, conducted in Italy in Italian for Marzani's book The Promise of Eurocommunism, have been been separated to the Library's Oral History collections, ...

ArchivalResource: 18.5 linear feet (38 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/614067318 View