Collected records, 1937-1975.

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Collected records, 1937-1975.

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Records, primarily mimeographed and printed material from 1953-1959 and the early 1970s, of a non-partisan organization dedicated to safeguarding the freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. Includes administrative records consisting of meeting minutes, 1953-1960, and printed correspondence and memos distributed to chapter and affiliate officers in the 1970s; and a subject file of printed policy statements, memos, and reports. Major subjects of interest in the 1950s were censorship, loyalty oaths and determination of an individual's loyalty, national security, and anti-communist McCarthyism; and in the 1970s were civil rights and equality, the right to privacy, and opposition to bureaucratic and governmental regulation and interference with individuals.

4.0 c.f. (10 archives boxes)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6847103

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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