Records, primarily office files, 1965-1969.

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Records, primarily office files, 1965-1969.

Contains director's correspondence, financial statements, newsletters, memoranda and material re the organization of the Roanoke Valley, South Hampton Roads, Lynchburg, Charlottesville and Blacksburg chapters. Topics include the civil liberties of students, women, blacks, servicemen, prisoners, the mentally ill and migrant workers. Civil rights demonstrations & desegration are the main issues but there is also material on academic freedom, marijuana possession, gun control, conscientious objectors and draft reistance, medical ethics, abortion, & capital punishment.

3,600, ca items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7364873

University of Virginia. Library

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American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia

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The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia was established in 1967 and has maintained a staffed office in Richmond since 1968. From the description of Records, 1967-79. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 20973289 HISTORICAL SKETCH. The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia was established in 1967 and has maintained a staffed office in Richmond since 1968. From the description of Records, 1967-79. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 7...

American Civil Liberties Union. Virginia Branch.

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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...