Harvey O'Connor Civil Liberties collection O'Connor (Harvey) Civil Liberties Collection between 1966 and 1972

Southern Conference Educational Fund

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The Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW) was formally organized in Birmingham, Alabama in the fall of 1938. It was inspired by the findings of the National Emergency Council's Report on Economic Conditions in the South and by the philosophies of the Southern Policy Conference, a group of Southern intellectuals. Its structure was based on representation from the thirteen Southern states (non-Southerners were welcomed as non-voting members) and the District of Columbia and New York (the la...

American Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born

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The American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born (1933-1982), based in New York City, was founded for the purpose of defending the rights of the foreign born, especially radicals and Communist Party members, thereby filling a void left by other civil rights defense groups. The Committee's formation was initiated by Roger Baldwin of the American Civil Liberties Union. The Committee pursued its aims through litigation, legislation and public education. In its early years, the Committee's acti...

United States. Subversive Activities Control Board

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The United States Subversive Activities Control Board was created in 1950 in conjunction with enactment of the Internal Security Act of 1950. This act, known as the McCarran Act after its author Senator Pat McCarran, did not outlaw the Communist Party but sought to secure its control through regulation (or perhaps more likely, its dissolution rather than submit to such control). It required registration with the United States government of domestic "communist-action organizations" (defined as or...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities (1934-1975)

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From 1934 to 1937 The U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities began as the Special Committee on Un-American Activities and was also known as the McCormack-Dickstein Committee. The Dies Committee, was created on May 26, 1938, with the approval of House Resolution 282, which authorized the Speaker of the House to appoint a special committee of seven members to investigate un-American activities in the United States, domestic diffusion of propaganda, and all other questions relating thereto...

National Conference for New Politics

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O'Connor, Harvey, 1897-1987

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Harvey O'Connor was born March 29, 1897 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended high school in Tacoma, Washington. During the period from 1918-1924 Mr. O'Connor did editoral work in Seattle. From 1924-1927 he was assistant editor of Locomotive Engineers Journal in Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. O'Connor was a bureau manager for Federated Press from 1927-1930. And from 1935-1937 he was managing editor of People's Press. He was also editor of Ken from 1937-1938 in Chicago. Mr. O'Connor has been active in the...

National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee

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National Committee against Repressive Legislation (U.S.)

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The successor organization to the National Committee to Abolish the House Committee on Internal Security; a volunteer organization which pursues "First Amendment rights to oppose repressive laws"; exposes the excesses of the FBI in the suppression of First Amendment Rights. From the description of Collection, 1964-[ongoing]. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 29545658 ...

National Committee to Abolish the House Committee on Un-American Activities

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Internal Security

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Clifford A Kiracofe, Jr, formerly a Senior Professional Staff Member of the United States Senate on Foreign Relations. Author of "Dark Crusade: Christian Zionism and US Foreign Policy" (2009), and in collaboration with Pierre de Villemarest, a history of Soviet military intelligence (1988), and a history of the STASI (1991). Currently teaching at Washington and Lee and Virginia Military Institute. From the description of Papers of the U.S. House Committee on Internal Security [manusc...

Committee for GI Rights

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American Civil Liberties Union

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Founded in 1920 in New York City by Roger Baldwin and others; the ACLU was an outgrowth of the American Union Against Militarism's National Civil Liberties Bureau, which in 1920 changed its name to the American Civil Liberties Union. From the description of Collection, 1917- (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 42740878 The Southern Women's Rights Project (SWRP) located in Richmond is affiliated with the American Civil Liberties Union. The project deal...

Emergency Civil Liberties Committee

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