Bill of Rights Fund Papers 1954-1966.

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Bill of Rights Fund Papers 1954-1966.

This collection contains financial documents pertaining to grants awarded and refused by the Bill of Rights Fund in addition to correspondence, minutes, reports and printed matter.

6.5 linear ft (ca.7000 items in 15 boxes).

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Bill of Rights Fund.

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED The Bill of Rights Fund was founded in New York in 1954 to provide financial aid in civil liberties court cases that raised important constitutional issues. The officers were: Corliss Lamont, President; Eleanor Jackson Piel, Secretary; Palmer Weber, treasurer; and Philip Wittenberg, Counsel. During its more than 11 years of existence, the Bill of Rights Fund made grants in excess of $160,000 to more than 165 individuals and organizations. The Fund suspended operations in 1966 b...

Lamont, Corliss, 1902-1995

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John Reed (1887-1920) was an American journalist and revolutionary. He graduated from Harvard College in 1910, joined the staff of The Masses in 1913, was a war correspondent in Mexico and Europe for Metropolitan Magazine, publicist for the Russian Revolution, and head of the American Communist Labor Party. From the guide to the Corliss Lamont papers concerning John Reed, 1910-1967., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Reed (1887-1920) was an Amer...

Wittenberg, Philip, 1895-1987

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Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Philip Wittenberg and his wife, Ruth Wittenberg. From the description of Letters, 1950-1975, n.d., to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155879797 The American Civil Liberties Union Committee on Labor Injunctions was organized to help secure the passage of federal and state legislation to end the abuse of injunctions in restricting labor's rights to organize, strike and picket. From the de...

Piel, Eleanor Jackson.

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