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Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981

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Roger Nash Baldwin (January 21, 1884 – August 26, 1981) was one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He served as executive director of the ACLU until 1950. Many of the ACLU's original landmark cases took place under his direction, including the Scopes Trial, the Sacco and Vanzetti murder trial, and its challenge to the ban on James Joyce's Ulysses. Baldwin was a well-known pacifist and author. Baldwin was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts, the son of Lucy Cushing (...

United States. National Labor Relations Board

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After the first National Labor Relations Board was functionally abolished by the Supreme Court decision invalidating the National Industrial Recovery Act, May 27, 1935, a new National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was established as an independent agency by the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act (NLRA) (49 Stat. 195), dated July 5, 1935. The Supreme Court in 1937 declared the Board constitutional and sustained Congress’s power to regulate employers whose operations affected interstate commerce...

United States. Department of Justice

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The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the United States government responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice in the United States, and is equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries. The department was formed in 1870 during the Ulysses S. Grant administration, and administers several federal law enforcement agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigat...

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962

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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the longest-serving First Lady throughout her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four terms in office (1933-1945). She was an American politician, diplomat, and activist who later served as a United Nations spokeswoman. A shy, awkward child, starved for recognition and love, Eleanor Roosevelt grew into a woman with great sensitivity to the underprivileged of all creeds, races, and nations. Her constant work to improve their lot made her one of the most loved–...

Veterans of foreign wars of the United States

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Spingarn, Jerome H.

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Daughters of the American Revolution.

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D. A. R. chapters from Washington, DC and surrounding areas. From the description of Papers, 1948-1949. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36009706 ...

German American League for Culture

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Nelles, Walter, 1883-1937

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Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948

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Schwimmer was a Jewish pacifist and writer, born in Hungary. Her application for American citizenship was denied by the Supreme Court in 1929 on the grounds of her pacifist views. Justice Holmes wrote the dissenting opinion. (United States v. Schwimmer; 49 S. Ct. 448) From the description of Correspondence between Rosika Schwimmer and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1930-1935. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 235152187 Public official. From the descr...

Owen, Mickey.

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Industrial Workers of the World

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The IWW is a labor organization dedicated to uniting laborers around the world into a single large union. From the description of Collection 1916-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 778701431 Established in Chicago in 1905 by sponsors of socialism and the remnants of previous labor unions, including the Knights of Labor, Western Federation of Miners and the American Labor Union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), or "Wobblies", evolved into a radical industrial unio...

Stephens, Max

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Milner, Lucille Bernheimer, 1888-

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Couchis, James.

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Dennis, Lawrence, 1893-1977

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American journalist; editor, Weekly Foreign Letter, 1938-1942, and Appeal to Reason, 1946-1972. From the description of Lawrence Dennis papers, 1921-1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872109 Writer, banker. From the description of Oral history interview with Lawrence Dennis, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309737184 Dennis (Harvard College Class of 1919) earned his Harvard AB in 1920. From the des...

Salmon, Benjamin

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Whitney, Alexander F. (Alexander Fell), 1873-1949

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National Committee on Conscientious Objectors (U.S.)

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Began ca. 1940 with offices in New York City and Washington D.C.; organized to aid conscientious objectors to World War II after conscription began in the United States; ceased operations in 1946. From the description of Records, 1940-1946. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 20335297 ...

Ku Klux Klan 1915-....

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The Ku Klux Klan was formally incorporated under the laws of the state of Georgia on Dec. 4, 1915. The incorporated organization is a continuance of the earlier post Civil War Reconstruction Era unincorporated Ku Klux Klan and of the Knights of the White Camellia. Women of the Ku Klux Klan was incorporated at a late date as a separate entity. The stated purpose of the KKK was to promote an all White, Protestant United States, excluding all other races and religions. From the descript...

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...

Fraenkel, Osmond K. (Osmond Kessler), 1888-1983

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Lawyer; interviewee d.1983. From the description of Reminiscences of Osmond Kessler Fraenkel : oral history, 1974. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309734307 Fraenkel was a New York City lawyer who served on the American Civil Liberties Union's Board of Directors and as its general counsel. From the description of Osmond K. Fraenkel diaries, 1933-1968. (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 82393949 Lawyer. ...

Hartney, Joseph.

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Scopes, John Thomas

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