Mary Metlay Kaufman Papers, 1917-1994
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Mary Metlay Kaufman Papers
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Kaufman, Mary Metlay, 1912-1995
Biographical History for: Mary Metlay Kaufman Papers
Biographical Note Mary Kaufman giving the commencement speechat Hampshire College, Amherst, Mass., 1976 Mary Metlay was born November 9, 1912 in Atlanta, Georgia, the daughter of Nathan and Etta (Kirschner) Metlay who had emigrated from Russia. In 1917, the Metlay family moved to Brooklyn, New York. Kaufman described her family's influence on her social consciousness and activism: "From early childhood, I was very much attuned to the problems of the poor. Poverty was my economic level up until the time I finished law school. My mother led a rent strike during the early days...on the East Side, and I also participated in things like that and the monumental hunger marches and organization of the unemployed in the 1930s.... The other thing that influenced me greatly since childhood was the fact that in my family women did not play a secondary role.... So that although I grew up in a society where women were generally oppressed, I didn't have to battle my personal environment." (Marlise James, The People's Lawyers, 1973) Kaufman attended James Madison High School and earned her bachelor's degree in Political Science from Brooklyn College in 1932. For the next four years she studied for her law degree, attending night classes at St. John's University Law School while working for the Remedial Reading Program of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). After being admitted to the New York bar in 1937, she continued her organizing work with WPA legal projects and was involved in the Lawyers' Security League, an organization of lawyers working with the WPA. During this time she also worked for labor lawyer, Frank Scheiner, "representing parties at conferences before the New York State and National Labor Relations Board." She was one of the original members of the progressive National Lawyers' Guild, founded in 1937, and was active on both the national level and in the New York City Chapter into the 1970s. In 1940, Kaufman moved to Washington, D.C. to work for the National Labor Relations Board as a Review Attorney, analyzing transcripts of hearings, reporting findings to the Board, and writing decisions. That same year she married Frederick Kaufman and a year later returned to New York to raise their son Michael, born September 1941. In 1944 Kaufman moved back to Washington with her son to work for the National War Labor Board, and then the National Wage Stabilization Board until 1947. She and her husband were separated in 1946 and eventually divorced in 1952. From 1947 to 1948, Kaufman served on the prosecution team of the U.S. Military Tribunal in Nuremburg, Germany, in the case against the international chemical cartel, I.G. Farben (United States v. Krauch). I.G. Farben was a financial supporter of the Nazi regime, and was charged with pillaging the chemical industries of occupied Europe; using slave labor; and manufacturing the gas used in the Nazi death camps. Members of the Board of Directors were charged with crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity - the three categories of war crimes defined at Nuremberg. But cold war politics meant that there was little support for giving them more than light sentences. Kaufman returned to the U.S. in 1948 in the midst of the domestic cold war. As she later told an interviewer, it was "an atmosphere I hadn't watched develop and was appalled by it. I had been living in the past of the Nazi's rise to power - a rise which began with the elimination of the Communists and the use of anti-communism as a pretext for suspending the constitutional guarantees of the people - and came back to see what appeared to me to be the same development taking place in this country." (James, p. 91) Upon her return she established her private practice in New York City and began her life-long work as a defender of civil liberties and constitutional rights. From 1948 into the early 1960s, her legal work consisted primarily of defending leaders of the Communist Party of the United States (C.P.U.S.A.) who were indicted under the Smith Act in New York, Denver, and St. Louis. During this period she also represented individuals before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and the Subversive Activities Control Board (SACB). 1966 was a turning point in Kaufman's career: "At that time I decided to take stock and consider where to go next. I was terribly troubled by the racism in our society and the war in Vietnam. I spent a long time researching and reviewing the Nuremberg war crimes trials. I was overwhelmed by the similarity of the patterns of the Nazis with our own.... I wrote on the subject. I then traveled to Europe, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and the German Democratic Republic to lecture and to study their legal systems.... When I came back the protests against war, racism and poverty were in full bloom." (James, p. 93-94) In December 1967, during "Stop the Draft week" hundreds of war protestors were arrested in New York City and the National Lawyers' Guild set up the Mass Defense Committee, chaired by Kaufman, to defend them. It was the first time the Guild was to undertake direct representation of people arrested in political actions. In April 1968, when over a thousand people were arrested during the Columbia University strike, parents of students arrested helped to raise enough money to set up the Mass Defense Office. Kaufman directed the office from 1968 to 1971, supervising over 200 volunteer lawyers, law students, activists, and legal workers, and directing the defense of thousands arrested protesting for civil rights and peace. Kaufman's development of the theory of the use of the Nuremburg Principles (particularly the principle of individual responsibility) was a guiding force in her defense of political activists. Over the next two decades she researched, spoke, and wrote on the subject of defending civil disobedience in the face of U.S. war crimes against peace and humanity. Kaufman was a legal advisor in the "Hickam 3" case of anti-Vietnam War protestors in Hawaii in 1972. From 1977 to 1983, she testified in a series of civil disobedience cases in defense of protestors of the Trident nuclear submarine based in Bangor, Washington, and she participated in several international tribunals from 1967 to 1984, investigating U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia; the use of atomic weapons against Japan; and the nuclear arms race. In 1972, Mary Kaufman was hired as a visiting Professor to direct the Undergraduate Legal Studies Program at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. She taught courses in McCarthyism; labor law; Nuremberg and international law; racism and the law; and political trials of the 20th Century. After leaving Antioch, Kaufman was hired as a Visiting Professor of Law at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, from 1975 to 1976 and she delivered the Commencement Address there in 1976. Kaufman retired from legal casework by 1980, but continued to speak and write on issues such as peace and nuclear disarmament, civil rights, and political freedom. She died in New York City in 1995.
Scope and Contents of the Collection The Mary Metlay Kaufman Papers consist of 34 linear feet of material, dating from 1917 to 1994. The bulk of the papers date from 1946 to 1986 and focus on Kaufman's professional life. Types of materials include trial records and research; correspondence; published and unpublished writings; speeches; conference materials; teaching materials; research and subject files (including notes, drafts, newspaper clippings, articles, and printed materials); and a small amount of photographs and personal memorabilia. Wherever possible, Kaufman's original arrangement and folder titles have been retained. Major themes that run throughout the collection include international law, the Nuremberg Principles, the Cold War, Communism, political trials in the U.S., the anti-Vietnam War and anti-nuclear movements, U.S. war crimes, and international human rights. Kaufman's papers document her life-long advocacy for the oppressed as well as for others who fought poverty, racism, war crimes, and political repression. The wide range of social causes in which she was involved illuminates connections between the Old Left, especially labor reform and C.P.U.S.A. activities, and the New Left's Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam War movements. The papers also document Kaufman's close associations with other prominent civil rights attorneys and the activities of the National Lawyers' Guild, as well as her involvement in other progressive organizations and in several international war crimes tribunals. Kaufman's research and writings reveal her development and use of the "Nuremberg defense" for those arrested in civil disobedience actions protesting war crimes. Kaufman's papers reflect her personal battle as a woman attorney, having begun her legal career in the late 1930s. She often had to fight not only the prosecution, but also her own male colleagues for inclusion on defense teams. The financial struggles she had as a single mother are also apparent, in correspondence with clients regarding payment for her services for which she often received little or no compensation.
Anti-communist movements--United States--History--Sources
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Civil disobedience--History--Cases--Sources.
Civil rights--United States--Cases--History--20th century--Sources
Cold War--Social aspects--United States--Sources
Communist trials--United States--History--Sources
Communists--United States--History--Sources
International law--Study and teaching--Sources
Jewish women--United States--History--20th century--Sources
Nuclear disarmament--History--Sources
War crime trials--Germany-- Nuremberg--1946-1949
Peace movements--History--20th century--Sources
Radicalism--United States--History--20th century
Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Protest movements
War crimes--United States--History-20th century
Women lawyers--United States--History--20th century--Sources
Douglass, James W.
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Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley
Ginger, Ann Fagan
Jackson, James E., 1914-
Jones, Claudia, 1915-1964
Rabinowitz, Victor
Thompson, Robert
Antioch College--Faculty--History--Sources
Communist Party of the United States of America--History--Sources
Hampshire College--Faculty--History--Sources
National Lawyers' Guild. Mass Defense Office (New York, N.Y.)--History--Sources
National Lawyers' Guild--History--Sources
series
SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS
This series includes articles and published interviews arranged chronologically, providing a useful overview of Kaufman's career and public appearances. [For publicity about specific events and trials, see also SERIES III. LEGAL PRACTICE and SERIES VI. SPEECHES]. Awards and honors include letters and tributes to Kaufman and other Smith Act defense attorneys, John Abt and Joseph Forer. There are also a few photographs and a few items of memorabilia. There is also a substantial F.B.I. file on Mary Kaufman (see box 1a and 1b).
SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE
This series contains personal and other non-professional correspondence. The rest of the correspondence in the collection relates to specific legal cases, organization work, or other activities, and is filed in the appropriate series. This series is arranged in three subseries: Family, Friends and associates, and Legal and financial. Friends and associates, include a General file of personal correspondence arranged chronologically. Included here are congratulatory letters to Kaufman on the establishment of her private practice in 1950, and personal letters from friends and colleagues. After the General file, correspondents are arranged alphabetically. Locations of additional material by and about individuals can be located by checking the Name Index.
SERIES III. LEGAL PRACTICE
This series includes files generated from Kaufman's early work for government labor agencies, her participation in the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, her private practice and consultative work, and Mass Defense Office cases. The series is arranged roughly chronologically, although the Smith Act cases and related appeals, circa 1948-65, are grouped together. The "General files" at the beginning of the series include materials related to her bar certification and early job applications. These are followed by correspondence, memoranda, and briefs from her tenures with the National Labor Relations Board, the National War Labor Board, and the National Wage Stabilization Board, 1939-46. The Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal files include court documents and briefs providing an overview of the case against the international chemical cartel, I.G. Farben. "The documents involving Nuremberg point to the mechanisms of imperialism, the relationship between big business and government and to the influence of cold war politics on the second tier of war crimes trials…." (from "Description of my files," Sophia Smith Collection). Also included is a small amount of correspondence and notes, and judgements from other Nuremberg tribunals. A set of 120 bound volumes containing the complete I.G. Farben trial transcript and indices was transferred to the Yale University Law Library. The Smith Act, passed by Congress in 1940, made it a crime to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of the United States government. Kaufman's Smith Act case files document her participation in some of the most significant political trials of the Cold War period. Kaufman served on the defense team of the first Smith Act trial of the C.P.U.S.A. national leaders in U.S. v. Eugene Dennis, et al., in New York City, 1948-49. From 1952 to 1956 she represented several of the same defendants in appellate proceedings and went on to lead the defense teams in the trials of second tier and state-level party leaders in New York, St. Louis, and Denver. The Smith Act "General" files contain material pertaining to more than one Smith Act case and include correspondence between lawyers handling Smith Act cases around the country, publicity produced by the Defense Committee, and background information on government informers who testified repeatedly in different Smith Act trials. After the General files, the individual Smith Act cases are arranged chronologically. Filed at the end of the Smith Act cases are the case files of several appeals that emerged out of U.S. v. Dennis, et al. These include Robert Thompson's contempt appeal and appeals for the reinstatement of his veteran's benefits after they were revoked when he was convicted as a Communist. Kaufman also worked on the defense for attorneys Harry Sacher and Abraham Isserman who were found guilty of contempt during the Dennis trial. She also represented the Trustees of the Bail Fund of the Civil Rights Congress of New York in several matters, including their appeal on a contempt charge for refusing to name individuals who had contributed to the fund. These case files provide important (and often hard to find) primary source material that documents Communism and communists in the U.S., including biographical information, histories of grassroots activities around the country, court transcripts of Party member testimonies, and revealing personal correspondence with state and national party leaders. Some of the people represented are Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Claudia Jones, Robert Thompson, James and Dorothy Forest, and Betty Gannett. Of particular interest within the Smith Act trial records is the extensive correspondence between Kaufman, other attorneys, and various defendants regarding their defense strategies. The Research and preparation files include extensive background information on witnesses, including C.P.U.S.A members turned informants for the government. Also of interest is research material compiled on racial and class compositions of the local communities and used to challenge the make-up of the juries in several cases. Filed after the Smith Act cases, are materials relating to Kaufman's representation of individuals and organizations brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee (H.U.A.C.) and the Subversive Activities Control Board (S.A.C.B.), between 1950 and 1966. In addition, there is material on Kaufman's defense of individuals threatened with deportation by the Immigration Service, or those who had difficulties obtaining passports because of suspected Communist affiliations. The remaining cases in the series date from 1950 to 1984 and are arranged chronologically and include other anti-Communist cases, union matters, civil rights cases, and the defense of political activists and prisoners. Among these are materials pertaining to Kaufman's work in 1950-51 on an unsuccessful attempt for a stay of execution for Willie McGee, a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman in Mississippi. Kaufman's Mass Defense Office case files, circa 1968-72, include documentation of her work on an amicus brief for the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression's defense of imprisoned Black Panther Party member David Rice in 1974. Other cases include several class action civil suits on behalf of prisoners in Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan. (For additional materials relating to the Mass Defense Office see SERIES V. ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES.) Files of the Hickam 3 and Trident cases, 1972-1984, cover Kaufman's work as legal consultant and expert witness on international law in the trials of anti-Vietnam War and anti-nuclear weapons activists. Also included in this series is material relating to her 1974 trip to Greece with other human rights advocates to investigate, and bring international attention to, brutality practiced against hundreds of political prisoners under a fascist rule. The records of each case are arranged alphabetically by type (or function) as follows: Briefs, Correspondence, Court documents, Publicity, Research and preparation, and Transcripts. Correspondence is generally arranged chronologically unless there is a significant amount with one individual, in which case it is in a separate file. Research and preparation files are arranged alphabetically by subject at the end of each case.
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SERIES IV. TEACHING
This series is arranged in three subseries: Antioch College, Hampshire College, and Course materials. The first two subseries include correspondence and course evaluations written by students and colleagues. The Antioch College subseries also includes materials related to a 1973 campus strike in response to financial aid cuts and the layoff of union workers. Kaufman and other faculty participated in the strike and were dismissed for obstructing the entrance to an administration building. After several months of review procedures and hearings for the terminated faculty, Kaufman was reinstated. The Course materials include syllabi, lecture notes, and research files for courses taught by Kaufman at both Antioch and Hampshire College. (See also SERIES VIII. RESEARCH for unidentified notes and subject files that may have been used for these courses).
SERIES V. ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
This series documents four decades of Kaufman's involvement in numerous causes, particularly the Civil Rights and peace movements, and international human rights. Materials relating to her participation in several international war crimes tribunals are also included here. The series is arranged alphabetically by name of the organization or conference. See the Name Index for organizations represented in other series. The largest amount of material in this series relate to Kaufman's work with the National Lawyers' Guild, including her terms on its national executive board and on the board of the New York City chapter. Types of material include correspondence with other Guild members; Guild publications; files on committee work; convention materials; and files on special projects, such as the preparation of amici curiae briefs for a Supreme Court appeal of the C.P.U.S.A. against the Subversive Activities Control Board, circa 1955-61. The Guild's Mass Defense Office (M.D.O.) records include correspondence; histories of the M.D.O.; and publications. Kaufman was director of the M.D.O. office from 1968 to 1971. Cases she worked on during that period are located in SERIES III. LEGAL PRACTICE. Other organizations represented include the International Association of Democratic Lawyers; the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy; the Lawyers' Committee on American Policy Towards Vietnam; and the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. Kaufman was invited to take part in several international tribunals investigating U.S. war crimes. In 1967, she represented the National Lawyers' Guild at the International War Crimes Tribunal on American Involvement in Vietnam in Paris, sponsored by the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. She was a member of an international team of experts invited to Japan to investigate "the full implications of the use of the atom bomb over Hiroshima and Nagasaki," in 1977. And in 1984, Kaufman served on the International Tribunal on the Reagan Administration's Foreign Policy, sponsored by the International Progress Organization, in Brussels .
SERIES VI. WRITINGS
This series contains published articles, unpublished drafts, notes, and research materials arranged alphabetically by title or topic. A recurring topic of Kaufman's writings is Nuremberg and the war crimes principles as they relate to the Vietnam War and the nuclear arms race. Other subjects include the Cold War and anti-communism. Writings produced for specific projects, committees, or organizations (such as a history of the Mass Defense Office) are filed in SERIES V. ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES. Unidentified drafts and notes are filed by subject in SERIES VIII. RESEARCH.
[SEE ALSO SERIES VIII. RESEARCH AND SUBJECT FILES - unidentified drafts]
SERIES VII. SPEECHES
This series contains speech texts, notes, related correspondence, publicity, and research arranged alphabetically by subject or event name. Subjects include anti-communism, nuclear disarmament, international law, Nuremberg, the Civil Rights movement, and the Vietnam War. Papers and addresses given at conferences, tribunals, and other events that were sponsored by organizations in which Kaufman was active are filed in SERIES V. ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES. See also SERIES III. LEGAL PRACTICE for testimonies given by Kaufman in the Trident and Hickam 3 cases; course lectures in SERIES IV. TEACHING, and SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS for clippings publicizing Kaufman's activities, some of which include speaking. Unidentified notes that may also have been used for speeches are filed by subject in SERIES VIII. RESEARCH.
SERIES VIII. RESEARCH AND SUBJECT FILES
This series is arranged alphabetically by subject, including five major subject areas: anti-communism, Germany, Nuclear disarmament, Nuremberg and Nazis, and the Vietnam War. There are smaller amounts of material on international law, the Cold War, racism, the Civil Rights movement, U.S. foreign policy, various individuals, and miscellaneous topics. Types of material include articles, legal documents, unpublished writings by others, correspondence, notes and unidentified drafts, newspaper clippings, and printed materials. Kaufman's original file titles have been retained wherever possible. Most of these files appear to have been Kaufman's working files that were referred to, and added to, repeatedly over many years for a variety of projects, including legal cases, course lectures, articles, and speeches. Research files that were identified by Kaufman for specific purposes are filed in the appropriate series, such as Research and preparation files under each case in SERIES III. LEGAL PRACTICE, and Course materials in SERIES IV. TEACHING.
[See also F.B.I. file on Mary Kaufman, circa 1941-1978 in boxes 1a-1b]
Resumes
Articles and interviews
[SEE ALSO OVERSIZED MATERIALS - Flat file]
Education: diploma, honor roll lists, and letter of reference, 1933-34, 1937
Awards and tributes (includes Joseph Forer and other National Lawyers' Guild members), 1945-69, n.d.
Travel: passport application, correspondence, and printed materials, 1965-66, n.d.
Memorabilia, 1924, 1950-56, n.d.
Photos, n.d.
Miscellaneous: addresses and notes, n.d.
SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE (1940-82)
Family, 1940-65, n.d.
Friends and associates
Congratulatory letters on establishment of private practice, 1950
General, 1950-83, n.d.
Individuals
Baxandall, Rosalyn (includes article on Elizabeth Gurley Flynn), 1982
Caute, David, 1974
DuBois, W.E.B. and A.C.L.U. (telegram), 1961
Ann Fagan Ginger (includes writings, printed material, and obituary of Harry Sacher), 1969-76, n.d.
Hutchins, Grace, 1952, n.d.
Levy, Newman, n.d.
Narvaez Ochoa, Evelyn, 1975
Winter, Carl, 1961
Financial and legal (personal): correspondence, documents, bills, 1950-53, n.d.
F.B.I. file on Mary Kaufman, circa 1941-1978
{added in 2006}
General: employment applications, correspondence (includes Joseph Forer and John Abt), bar certificates, and printed materials, 1937-59
Early career
Works Progress Administration: correspondence, 1934-37
Frank Scheiner: correspondence, 1939
National Labor Relations Board: correspondence and report, 1939-41, n.d.
National War Labor Board
General: job evaluations, and committee lists, 1945, n.d.
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and legal opinions, 1945, n.d.
Briefs and printed materials, 1945-46, n.d.
National Wage Stabilization Board: evaluations, correspondence, and official documents re: position, 1946-47
Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal against I.G. Farben (United States v. Krauch)
General: correspondence (includes Telford Taylor and Harry Truman), employment documents, and notes, 1947-49, n.d.
Court documents, 1945-48
Briefs, 1947-48
Briefs, 1948
Final judgement, 1948
Concurring opinion (Justice Paul Herbert), 1948
Roechling case judgement, 1948
Smith Act cases
General
Correspondence
Attorneys, defendants, and others involved in Smith Act cases around the country (includes Sydney Berger, Harriet Bouslog, Harold Buchman, Martin Chaucey, George Crockett, Frank Donner, Joseph Forer, Thelma Furry, Simon Gerson, Ann Fagan Ginger, Ernest Goodman, Robert Lewis, John McTernan, David Scribner, Frank Serri, and A.L. Wirin), 1950-55, 1962
Mailing list, n.d.
Families of the Smith Act victims: government memorandum, 1953
Publicity
Newsletters (includes Civil Rights Congress, Joint Self Defense Committee), 1951-56
Research and preparation (alphabetical by subject)
A-E
Informers
General (includes article by Frank Donner), 1954-55
Argument on unreliability (includes National Lawyers' Guild), 1949-55, n.d.
Force and violence statements, n.d.
Individuals, circa 1952-1955, n.d.
Baldwin, Bereniece
Budenz, Louis
Clontz Ralph and Marlane Kowall
Crouch, Paul
Hartle, Barbara
Lautner, John
Younglove, Thomas
Miscellaneous
Subversive Activities Control Board v. American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born (informers in case), 1955
J-O
P-Y
United States v. Eugene Dennis, et al. [originally U.S. v. William Foster, et al.]
Court documents, 1948-59
Publicity, 1949-51
Appeals
[SEE ALSO Smith Act-related cases]
U.S. Court of Appeals: briefs and petitions, 1949
Supreme Court: briefs, petitions, memoranda, and oral arguments, 1948-51
Henry Winston and Gil Green: briefs and petitions, 1950-57
Gus Hall: briefs, 1951
John Williamson: correspondence, publicity, and notes, 1953-54
Irving Potash: correspondence, billing, documents, and notes, 1956-57, n.d.
William Z. Foster
Briefs and petitions, 1959-60
Correspondence (includes Rowland Watts, Arnold Johnson), 1950-61
Court documents, 1959-60
Publicity: clippings and press release, 1959-60
Research and preparation: documents, correspondence, articles, drafts, and notes, 1948-60, n.d.
United States v. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, et al.
General (includes Simon Gerson, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, John McTernan), 1951-53
Attorneys and others involved (includes Harold Ickes, Robert Minor, Simon Gerson), 1951-53
Defendants
Alexander Bittleman, 1953-56
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (includes Roger Baldwin), 1953-76, n.d.
Betty Gannett, 1955-56, n.d.
Victor Jerome, 1952-55
Arnold Johnson, 1955
Claudia Jones, 1955
Al Lannon, 1955
Pettis Perry, 1953
Alexander Trachtenberg, 1955, n.d.
Weinstock, Louis, 1955
Weinstone, William, 1955-56
Court documents, 1951-56, n.d.
Court documents, 1951-52, n.d.
Court documents, 1952-55
Exhibits: lists, document, 1952, n.d.
Publicity (includes Naomi Barko), 1952-54
A-C
General: notes, n.d.
George Charney: correspondence and notes, 1953-55
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: statements before court, 1951-52
Victor Jerome: writings, correspondence, documents, notes, and memorabilia, 1955-1957, n.d.
Claudia Jones: correspondence, medical records, documents, printed materials, and notes, 1950-55, n.d.
Jacob Mindel: correspondence, notes, and documents, 1951-55, n.d.
D-Jud
Jury challenge
K-T
Witnesses (includes Harvey Matusow and John Lautner), 1952-55, n.d.
[SEE ALSO Smith Act Cases - General - Informers]
Witnesses, 1952, n.d.
Transcripts (includes statements by Miles Lane, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ), 1952, n.d.
Transcripts (includes statement by Frank Serri), 1952-53, n.d.
Appeals: briefs, petitions, correspondence (includes Delbert Metzger and A.L. Wirin), and documents, 1953-55
United States v. James Forest, et al. and United States v. William Sentner, et al. (St. Louis)
Correspondence, 1953-58
Attorneys (includes Sydney Berger)
Defendants (includes Dorothy and James Forest, Robert and Irma Manewitz, and William Sentner)
Court documents, 1953-54, n.d
Research and preparation: printed materials, drafts, and notes, 1953-54, n.d.
Research and preparation, 1954, n.d. (cont'd)
Transcripts (includes statement by Marcus Murphy), 1954
Appeals: briefs, petitions, documents, and research, 1954-56, n.d.
Appeals: transcripts (includes statement by James Forest), 1954-55, n.d.
United States v. Arthur Bary, et al., Denver
Correspondence, 1954-57, n.d.
Attorneys (includes William Bryans, III, Joseph Forer, William V. Hodges, John McTernan, Forrest C. O'Dell, and Samuel Rosenwien)
Defendants (Arthur and Anna Bary, Marta Correa, Lewis Johnson, Joseph Scherrer, and Harold Zeppelin)
Court documents, 1954-55, n.d.
Publicity, 1955-57
Research and preparation, 1955, n.d.
Appeal: briefs and documents, 1955-56, n.d.
United States v. George Charney; James Jackson; Alexander Trachtenberg, et al.
Correspondence, 1955-56
Court documents: government's list of documents and exhibits, 1955-56
Publicity, 1955
Research and preparation, 1956, n.d.
Transcript (includes Simon Gerson and Doxey Wilkerson), 30 Apr-17 Sep 1956
Appeal
Correspondence (includes Ernest Angell, Grace Hutchins, Richard Criley, Doris Fine, Bella Altschuler, Boris Bittker, and George Charney), 1955-58
Court documents, 1956-57
Research and preparation, 1953-57, n.d.
Smith Act-related cases
Attorneys' contempt case (United States v. Harry Sacher, Abraham Isserman, et al.)
Briefs and petitions
General, 1949-56
Disbarment appeals, 1952--61, n.d.
Correspondence (includes Leonard Boudin, Abraham Isserman, George Crockett, John McTernan, and Maurice Sugar), 1959-60
Court documents, 1949
Publicity: clippings and articles (includes I.F. Stone and Harry Sacher Defense Committee), 1950
Research and preparation, 1950-63, n.d
Trustees of the Bail Fund of the Civil Rights Congress
History and background: memorandum and printed materials, 1949-52
Trustees' meetings: minutes and notes, 1947-52, n.d.
Briefs, 1951-52, n.d.
Correspondence (includes Robert Dunn, Grace Hutchins, Victor Rabinowitz, and Joan Mellen, ), 1951-56, 1994
Court documents, 1949-52
Financial records, 1947-53
Publicity (includes Howard Fast, I.F. Stone), 1951
Research and preparation, 1950-55, n.d.
Bank investigation
Subversive Activities Control Board
Miscellaneous and unidentified
Transcripts
Testimonies of Bail Fund trustees in United States v. Eugene Dennis, et al., 1951
United States v. Frederick Vanderbilt Field, et al., circa 1951
Bank investigation, 1951
Other matters
United States v. [?] Christoffel (O. John Rogge matter): correspondence, documents, and research, 1951-52, n.d.
William Patterson v. United States (CRC tax liability case): correspondence and court documents, 1954
Eisler (?) bail bond matter: correspondence (George Bragdon), 1949-50
Robert Thompson
Contempt case (United States v. Robert Thompson)
Briefs and petitions, 1954-58, n.d.
Correspondence (includes Marcus Goldman and Robert Lewis, 1953-62, n.d.
Court documents, 1951-60, n.d.
Publicity, 1953, 1961
Research and preparation: A-B, 1957-59, n.d.
Research and preparation: M-S, 1950-62, n.d.
Transcript, 1953
Veteran's pension case (Robert Thompson v. Whittier, Administrator of Veterans' Affairs)
Briefs, 1960-64, n.d.
Correspondence (includes VA, Robert Lewis, Joseph Forer, Robert and Leona Thompson), 1954-66
Documents, 1956-65
Publicity (A.C.L.U.), 1964
Research and preparation: General, 1950-64, n.d.
Research and preparation: B-T, 1950-64, n.d.
Transcript (Board of Veterans Appeals hearing), 1963
Estate settlement
Correspondence (includes Sylvia Thompson), 1965-68
Court documents, 1965-69
Disbursement of estate and expenses: correspondence, receipts, and notes, 1959-68, n.d.
James Thompson (son): correspondence, notes, and financial records, 1965-68
Research and preparation, n.d.
Arlington cemetery case (Sylvia Thompson v. McNamara, et al.)
Brief (A.C.L.U.), 1967
Correspondence (includes Joel Hoffman and Lawrence Speiser), 1965-66
Court documents, 1966-68
Publicity (includes copies of additional correspondence, documents, and publicity), 1966, n.d.
Research and preparation, circa 1958-74
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) cases
General Electric employees, Bridgeport, CT: correspondence, notes, billing, printed materials, and clippings, 1956-58
David Fine: correspondence, billing, and notes, 1955
Oakley Johnson: documents, notes, printed materials, and publicity, 1952-57
Newark, N.J. (includes Manuel Cantor, John Norman, Louis Malinow, and John Karakos): correspondence, notes, and publicity, 1958
Miscellaneous: documents, and procedures, n.d.
Subversive Activities Control Board (S.A.C.B.) cases
[SEE ALSO SERIES V. ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES - National Lawyers' Guild - Projects - C.P.-U.S.A. v. S.A.C.B]
S.A.C.B. v. Council on African Affairs
Correspondence (W. Alpheus Hunton), 1955
Court documents, 1952-55, n.d.
Publicity: newsletters and clipping, 1948-55, n.d.
Research and preparation, 1944-55, n.d.
Louisiana [S.A.C.B.] v. Junesh Jenkins
Correspondence, memoranda, and billing (includes Leonard Boudin, Oakley Johnson, Corliss Lamont), 1957-58
Court documents, 1957, n.d.
Publicity (includes W.E.B. DuBois), 1957-58
Research and preparation (includes Oakley Johnson), 1957-58
S.A.C.B. v. W.E.B. DuBois Clubs of America: documents and printed materials, 1966
Passport and immigration cases
General: correspondence, documents, printed materials, and notes, 1947-64
Immigration cases: correspondence (includes International Workers Order and American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born), documents, and notes, 1950-53, n.d.
[SEE ALSO Bail Fund of the Civil Rights Congress]
Passports: correspondence (includes Robert Jackson, Corliss Lamont and James Jackson), documents, printed materials, and notes, 1957-60s
Dmytryshyn, Andrew: documents and notes, 1950, n.d.
International Workers' Order: documents, drafts, and notes, 1948-49, n.d.
Willie McGee v. [State of Mississippi]
Brief and petition (by Bella Abzug), 1950
Correspondence (includes Harriet Bouslog, Myer Symonds), 1950-51
Court documents, 1951
Publicity: clippings, 1945-51, n.d.
Research and preparation (includes article by Oakley Johnson), 1947-51, n.d.
National Guardian and the American Newspaper Guild: correspondence, memoranda, drafts, notes, and printed materials, 1948-1950, n.d.
Cuban banks: briefs and research, 1959-63
Gary Powers trial (Moscow): notes, drafts, and publicity, 1960
New York v. Molina Del Rio: documents, publicity, and briefs, 1960-64, n.d.
Grossman v. Joan Baez: memorandum, 1963
[CLOSED until Baez's death]
International Publishers
General: memoranda, correspondence (includes James Allen), documents, printed materials, and notes, 1963-1965, n.d.
International Publishers v. Hotel Belmont (re: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn speaking): correspondence, court documents, and printed materials, 1963, n.d.
International Publishers v. Hilton Hotel (re: anniversary and Alexander Trachtenberg's birthday celebration): correspondence, court documents, press release, drafts, notes, and printed materials, 1963-65, n.d.
Dialogue Publications: correspondence, documents, printed materials, and notes, 1961-1966, n.d.
Harlem 6 (New York v. Wallace Baker, et al.)
Correspondence (includes William Kunstler, Conrad Lynn, Gene Ann Condon, Victor Herwitz, and William Stringfellow), 1964-1967
Court documents, 1964-1967
Publicity, 1966
Research and preparation, 1961-67
Amicus curiae (Charter Group for a Pledge of Conscience): brief, correspondence, minutes, drafts, petition (by James Baldwin), and printed materials, 1966-67
Julius Zupan and United Union Painters: correspondence, printed materials, and notes, 1964-66, n.d.
People of the State of New York v. David Coleman: correspondence, document, and brief, 1966-67, n.d.
United States v. Franz Byrd: briefs, petition, correspondence, documents, research, and preparation, 1964-68, n.d.
Columbia University strike: briefs, memoranda, documents, research notes, drafts, and printed materials, 1968-69, n.d
Chicago 8: publicity (includes National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee), 1969-70
United States v. Marquez and Mas: briefs, documents, and research, 1970
Prison cases: correspondence, documents, publicity, research, and printed materials, 1969-72, n.d.
[SEE ALSO Young Lords]
Young Lords: correspondence (includes Victor Rabinowitz, Irving Kaplan, Mayor John Lindsay, and defendant Victor Martinez), documents, and publicity, 1970-71, n.d.
[SEE ALSO Prison cases]
Teachers' Action Committee: correspondence and research, 1971, n.d.
State of New York v. Scott and Beachman correspondence, documents, and research, 1971, n.d.
Bellamy, et al. v. Judges and Justices of New York City: documents and research, 1971-73, n.d.
Hickam 3 (United States v. James Albertini, James Douglass, and Charles Giuli)
Correspondence (includes David Bettencourt, American Friends' Service Committee and James Douglass), 1972
Court documents, 1972
Publicity: clippings, fliers, newsletters, and printed materials (includes interview with Mary Kaufman), 1972
Research and preparation, 1971-72, n.d.
Transcripts, 1972
Greece
Correspondence (includes political prisoners Tony Ambatielos and Nikos Kaloudis), 1974, n.d.
Publicity: statement, speech (by Kaufman), press release, and articles, 1974
Research, 1970-74
Charles Wolff v. David Rice
Briefs
General, 1974
Amici curiae (includes National Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression, National Lawyers' Guild, and Center for Constitutional Rights), 1974-75, n.d.
Correspondence, billing, and court documents, 1975
Research and preparation: B-N, 1974, n.d.
Research and preparation: N-P, 1970-75, n.d.
Trident nuclear submarine cases
Briefs, 1977-83
Correspondence (includes Richard Falk, J.W. Kinnert, Suzanne Schmidt, Bob Brodoc, Robert Aldridge, Shelley Douglass, Karol Schulkin, Allan MacEachen, and James Douglass), 1975-86, n.d.
Court documents (includes Kaufman's affidavit as expert witness), 1977-83
Publicity, 1975-85
Research and preparation: notes, drafts (includes Kaufman's affidavit), documents, and printed materials, 1971-1983, n.d.
Transcripts (includes statements by James and Shelley Douglass, 1976-77
Livermore Lab case: correspondence (attorney Valerie Sopher), brief, and notes, 1983-84, n.d.
Antioch College
Correspondence, 1971-76, n.d.
Course evaluations, 1971-72, n.d.
Miscellaneous: printed material and notes, 1972, n.d.
Personnel: contracts, resume, questionnaire, evaluations, and printed material, 1972-73, n.d.
Campus strike, dismissal, and faculty hearing: correspondence, printed material, transcript, research, petition, photos and cartoon, 1973-74
Hampshire College
Correspondence (includes David Matz), 1972-78
Course evaluations, 1975-76
General: printed material, course catalogs, and directories, 1975-76
Course materials (for Antioch and Hampshire College courses)
[SEE ALSO SERIES VIII. RESEARCH AND SUBJECT FILES]
"American Legal Systems, Myth and Reality": syllabi, course descriptions, lecture notes, assignments, student papers, reading lists, articles, clippings, and printed materials, 1972-75
"From Nurnberg {sic} to Vietnam": syllabi, course descriptions, lecture notes, assignments, student papers, reading lists, articles, clippings, and printed materials, 1972-76, n.d.
"Labor and the Law": syllabi, course descriptions, lecture notes, assignments, student papers, reading lists, articles, clippings, and printed materials, 1973-74
"McCarthyism: Political Hysteria and Repression in the U.S.": syllabi, course descriptions, lecture notes, assignments, articles, clippings, and printed materials, 1974-77, n.d.
"McCarthyism: Political Hysteria and Repression in the U.S.": student papers and reading lists, 1953-86
"Racism and the Law": syllabi, course descriptions, lecture notes, assignments, student papers, reading lists, articles, clippings, and printed materials, 1947-76, n.d.
"Significant Political Trials of the 20th century": syllabi, course descriptions, lecture notes, assignments, student papers, reading lists, articles, clippings, and printed materials, 1917-78, n.d.
Courses taught by others (Antioch Legal Studies Program?): syllabi, 1972
Special projects
Springfield [Ohio] Repression Collective and Collective on Racism, Repression and the Fightback: reports, printed materials, reading list, and article, 1972-73
Springfield [Ohio] police brutality project, 1975
American Association of Jurists
General correspondence, 1975-77
Inter-American Conference on Juridical Aspects of Economic Independence (Panama): correspondence, program, publicity, reports and resolutions, 1975
American Institute for Marxist Studies: documents and minutes, 1963-64
Committee for the New Magazine: program, 1964
Communist Party of the U.S.A.
Memoranda (includes James Jackson), convention program, printed materials, draft, and notes, 1983-92
Convention speechcirca 1971-72
Conference of Peace, Disarmament and Anti-War Movements from Europe and North America (Helsinki), 1984
International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL): correspondence (includes Lennox Hinds), printed materials, and conference materials, 1964-86, n.d.
International Commission of Enquiry into US War Crimes in Indochina (Copenhagen): program, lists of participants, notes, publicity, addresses, and subject files, 1972
International Peace Conference in Support of the United Nations' Special Session on Disarmament: publicity and printed materials, 1988
International Progress Organization - International Tribunal on the Reagan Administration's Foreign Policy (Belgium): correspondence, program, participant lists, reports, and addresses, 1984
International Symposium on the Damage and After-Effects of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Japan): correspondence (includes Japanese Council against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs), reports, papers (includes Robert Aldridge), and notes, 1971-77, n.d.
International War Crimes Tribunal on American Involvement in Vietnam (Paris) (includes Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre), 1967
Correspondence (includes Russell Stetler and Ernest Goodman)
[SEE ALSO National Lawyers' Guild - Conferences-20th Anniversary of Nuremberg, 1966]
General: program, statements, participants lists and bios, and notes
Reports
Miscellaneous (printed material and reports)
International War Crimes Tribunal to Investigate United States War Crimes in the Persian Gulf: correspondence, printed materials, and notes, 1992
Lawyers' Committee forJuly 4th: printed materials, 1976
Lawyers' Committee on American Policy Towards Vietnam: correspondence, conference materials, printed materials, and notes (includes Harold Cammer, William Standard), 1966-71, n.d.
[SEE ALSO SERIES VIII. RESEARCH AND SUBJECT FILES - Vietnam]
Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy
General correspondence, minutes, agendas, and notes, 1981-82, n.d.
Conferences
Proposal, 1984
International Conference on Nuclear Weapons and International Law, 1987
International Symposium on the Morality and Legality of Nuclear Weapons, n.d.
Publications, 1981-82
Lawyers' Emergency Committee on the Illegality of Nuclear Weapons
[SEE ALSO SERIES VIII. RESEARCH AND SUBJECT FILES - Nuclear disarmament; and SERIES VII. SPEECHES]
Correspondence (includes Robert Boehm, John Fried, Harold Cammer, Joseph Crown, Richard Falk, and Lloyd K. Garrison), 1978, n.d.
Writings and statements: drafts and notes
Research: notes and printed materials, circa 1977-78
Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
[SEE ALSO National Lawyers' Guild - Correspondence - Ginger, Ann Fagan]
Peace Law and Education Project: correspondence, printed materials, and legal documents, 1984
Publications, 1971-77
National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
General correspondence and printed materials, 1973-78
Conferences: correspondence, programs, notes, and printed materials , 1973-75, n.d.
Legal Support Committee: correspondence, minutes, notes, and draft, 1977-78
Projects
"Ban the Klan" resolution: printed materials and draft, 1981, n.d.
Sostre, Martin , 1974
Wilmington 10: correspondence, printed materials, and draft, 1976-77
Miscellaneous: printed materials, 1972-75, n.d.
National Committee for a Citizens' Commission of Inquiry on United States War Crimes in Vietnam: correspondence, minutes, and printed materials, 1969-71
National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (NECLC): brochure, 1975
National Lawyers' Guild
Administration
Correspondence (includes Frank Donner, Ann Fagan Ginger, Arthur Kinoy, Martin Kurasch, Victor Rabinowitz and Doris Brin Walker), 1946-87, n.d.
History: constitution, histories, and brochures, 1960-71, n.d.
Role of the National Lawyers' Guild: correspondence, reports, proposals, and articles, 1962-71, n.d.
National Executive Board: agendas, minutes, membership lists, reports, and notes, 1970-76, n.d.
Committees
Assistance to Southern Lawyers: memo, report, and resolution, 1962, n.d.
International (presentation on Nuremberg): correspondence and script, 1986
International Law, 1967-81, n.d.
Middle East: report, clipping, printed materials, and drafts (by Kaufman and Marty Popper), 1978-79, n.d.
National Defense: minutes and flier, 1971
National Labor: newsletters, 1973
Peace and Disarmament, 1961-63
Program and Administrative, 1962-71
Miscellaneous committees, 1962-76, n.d.
Chapters
New York City
[SEE ALSO Projects - Mass Defense Office]
General: correspondence, agendas, minutes, and reports (includes Ralph Shapiro), 1963-71
Newsletters, 1971-75
Annual membership dinners: programs (includes tribute to Arthur Kinoy), 1974, 1977
Constitutional Liberties Committee: minutes, letter to members, notes, brief, and printed materials, 1954-65, n.d.
[SEE ALSO Projects - C.P.-U.S.A. v. S.A.C.B]
Red Squad case settlement (police surveillance): meeting announcement and brief, 1980-81
Bay Area: reports and newsletters, 1970-73
Chicago: newsletters, 1972-73
Other chapters: newsletters and reports, 1970-71
Conventions and conferences
National Conventions: programs, and paper, 1960, 1962
20th Anniversary of Nuremberg Conference (and publication of special issue of Guild Practitioner), 1966
[SEE ALSO Publications; and SERIES VII. WRITINGS]
Correspondence (includes Ernest Goodman, John Fried, Quincy Wright, Martin Popper, Leonard Boudin, Ed Dawley and Manuel Nestle), 1966-67
General: program, clippings, press release, financial materials, and notes, 1966, n.d.
National conventions, 1970-76, n.d.
National Lawyers' Conference, NY: minutes, papers, and clipping, 1981
Northeast Regional Conference, 1985
50th Anniversary convention, Washington, D.C., 1987
[SEE ALSO SERIES VIII. RESEARCH AND SUBJECT FILES - Nuremberg]
Communist Party of the U.S.A. v. Subversive Activities Control Board
Briefs and petitions (includes John Abt, Joseph Forer, Royal France, Laurent Frantz and Thomas Emerson), 1955-60
Brief: digest and drafts, 1960
Correspondence (includes Laurent Frantz, Olive O. Van Horn and Arthur Swift), 1960-61
Finances: correspondence, bills, check stubs, statements and notes, 1960-61
Publicity: printed materials (includes Gus Hall), 1960-65
Background and preparation (includes Laurent Frantz and A.C.L.U.), 1955-60, n.d.
Draft (Vietnam war), 1966, n.d.
Grand jury workshop, 1971, n.d.
Kampuchea, 1983
Ku Klux Klan and Nazis, 1980-81, n.d.
Mass Defense Office
[SEE ALSO SERIES III. LEGAL PRACTICE for cases represented by the MDO, circa 1968-71]
Correspondence and memoranda (includes Ernest Goodman), 1970
Finances: notes and receipts, circa 1970, n.d.
History
"The Mass Defense Office: A Lawyer's Weapon Against Repression," 1970
Drafts and notes, 1970-71, n.d.
Meeting minutes, 1970
Notes, circa 1970
Publications, 1970
Workshops and conferences: fliers, 1970, n.d.
Black Panthers: printed materials, 1970-71, n.d.
Staten Island Public Health Service Employees: correspondence (Richard Hirsch), 1970
Miscellaneous cases: briefs and memoranda, 1969, n.d.
Research and preparation: articles, clippings, drafts, and notes, 1969-70, n.d.
Miscellaneous and unidentified: printed materials and notes, 1971, n.d.
Membership
Military Law project
National Lawyers' Guild v. Attorney General, F.B.I., et al.: correspondence, briefs, and documents, 1977-84
Nixon, Richard (impeachment)
Miscellaneous resolutions and proposals
Publications, 1962-77
Nuclear Warfare Tribunal, London: correspondence, program, notes, and article, 1984
Permanent People's Tribunal, 1984
Southern Legal Action Movement (SLAM): reports, notes, and printed materials, circa 1969-70
Women's International Democratic Federation (and Congress of American Women): correspondence, 1949, 1953
World Peace Conference (Prague): magazine article (includes photo and quote by Kaufman), 1983
World Peace Council (Meeting of WPC Experts on Problems of Disarmament, Warsaw): program, statements, clippings, flier, and notes, 1978
"Are Nazis Outlawed?," Daily World, 2 Nov. 1978: correspondence, article and draft, 1978
The National Lawyers' Guild and disarmament - untitled draft, n.d. (for article in Guild Practitioner or Guild Notes?)
"The Individual's Duty Under the Law of Nuremberg; the effect of Knowledge on Justiciability, 27 The Guild Practitioner (1968)
"Judgement at Nuremberg - An Appraisal of Its Significance on Its Twentieth Anniversary," The Guild Practitioner, vol 25 (1966): article, drafts, notes, and research
[SEE ALSO SERIES III. ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES - National Lawyers' Guild -Conferences, 1966]
The Mundt Bill: untitled draft, n.d.
"Must History Repeat Itself?" Daily World, 1981: article, draft, notes, and clippings, 1980-81, n.d.
"Never Again," Jewish Affairs, Vol. 11, no. 2 (Mar/Apr 1981): article, review, correspondence, drafts, and notes (original title, "Warsaw revisited"), 1981, n.d.
"Reflections on the 35th Anniversary of the Victory Over Fascism," 1980
[SEE ALSO SERIES VII. SPEECHES]
"Statements, Declarations and Agreements Leading to the War Crimes Trials at Nuremberg, Germany and Relevant Documents," and reprint of "Judgement at Nuremberg...," The Guild Practitioner, vol. 40, no. 3 (Summer 1983)
"Vietnam and Nuremberg," New Times, 29 Mar. 1967
ADVANCE convention: speech, n.d.
Anti-communism
"Are You Now or Have You Ever Been...?" Symposium, Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute: correspondence, program, and notes, 1980
"James Jackson": speech, notes, and printed materials, n.d.
"Law and Law and Order," Center for Marxist Education, NY: speech, and flier, n.d.
McCarron Act and the Subversive Activities Control Board: correspondence, speeches, and notes, 1961-62, n.d.
"National Lawyers' Guild and McCarthyism": notes, n.d.
"Sacher and Socrates," Newark Conference on Ill-Treatment of Lawyers: notes, n.d.
Smith Act (talk before National Lawyers' Guild): notes and draft, 1956, n.d.
"Taft-Hartley Decision": speech notes, 1950
"Black leaders in the peace movement," San Francisco: notes and clipping, 1983
Brock University, Ontario: correspondence and flier, 1974
"Deception in America Conference," UC-Irvine (never happened): correspondence and notes, 1977
Greece - Conference Celebrating 40th Anniversary of Victory Over Fascism, Athens, 1985: correspondence, notes, printed materials, and clippings, 1984-85
Hampshire College Commencement: transcript, manuscript, program, and publicity, 1976
Miscellaneous speaking engagements: correspondence, clippings, and fliers, 1950-90, n.d.
National Conference of Black Lawyers: correspondence (includes Lennox S. Hinds), printed materials, and programs, 1976-77
Nuclear disarmament
"Disarmament, Peace, and Our National Priorities," Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Boca Raton, FL: correspondence, program, clipping, and notes, 1979
"The Law and Nuclear Arms" conference, Gonzaga University: correspondence, program, printed materials, papers, transcript ("The Relevancy of the Law and Lawyers to the Issue of Nuclear Weaponry"), printed materials, and notes, 1984
"The Nuclear Arms Buildup: National Security or International Crime?": poster, n.d. [SEE Oversized material - Flat file]
Trident nuclear submarine
[SEE ALSO SERIES III. LEGAL PRACTICE - Trident cases - Publicity]
General: correspondence (includes Pacific Life Community) and notes, 1977-80, n.d.
Trident Concern Week
Vancouver, B.C.: correspondence (includes James Douglass, Alan and Kay Inglis) and printed materials, 1975
San Francisco Bay Area: correspondence (includes Robert Aldridge), printed materials, notes, and clippings, 1976
Seattle and Bangor, WA: notes and flier, 1979
U.S. Peace Council and nuclear disarmament: speech, May Day, circa 1980
"Warfare: Responsibility and Resistance," sponsored by Brooklyn College Disarmament Group: notes and flier, 1980
Women and the Law conference - workshop on nuclear disarmament: correspondence, program, clipping, and notes, 1981
"Women in Law Recruiting Conference," U. of Iowa: poster, n.d. [SEE Flat file]
Nuremberg and Nazis
"Nuremberg and Biko" conference, Stonybrook, NY: notes n.d.
"35th Anniversary of the Victory Over Fascism" (Conference sponsored by U.S. Committee for Friendship with the German Democratic Republic): flier, drafts, and notes, 1980
United Nations Commemoration of 40th Anniversary of Nuremberg Tribunal: publicity and printed materials, 1986
Untitled speech, 1950
Operation Upgrade (re: panel and workshop): correspondence, printed materials, and notes, 1966, 1968
Peace ("talk to lawyers"): notes, circa 1980s
Prison lectures (Art Without Walls lecture series): correspondence, lecture notes, legal documents, articles, and printed materials, 1972-77
"Shame of America," Conference on Human Rights in the U.S., Antioch College: program, publicity, notes, and printed materials, 1977-78
Vietnam War
[SEE ALSO SERIES III. LEGAL PRACTICE - Hickam 3 case - Publicity]
"A Call to Moratorium: the War, the Draft, the Ghetto," Rutgers U., 1968
"The Consequences of an Illegal War: The Spock-Coffin Indictments," Columbia Law School: notes and flier, circa 1968
"Solidarity on Indochina": draft, n.d.
American Civil Liberties Union (includes Abraham Isserman), 1977
General, 1955-77
Anti-communist cases, 1949-53
F.B.I. files bill ("Jenks law"), 1957
Richard Harris, 1972
McCarran Act, 1965
Paul Robeson, n.d.
The Rosenbergs, Morton Sobell, and Angela Davis (re: book and documentary): reviews, correspondence, drafts, clippings, and printed material, 1955-74, n.d.
Smith Act: typescript, 1953
Unidentified notes and drafts, n.d.
Biko, Stephen, 1977
Blacks and the peace movement (includes commentary on National Lawyers' Guild by Fania Davis), 1982-83, n.d.
Book lists, 1972-74, n.d.
Central and South America
Civil disobedience (includes paper by Michael Kaufman), circa 1966-68, n.d.
Cold War, 1970-94
Angela Davis, 1971, n.d.
Germany
General, 1966-67, 1990, n.d.
German legal system
German unification
U.S. Committee for Friendship with the German Democratic Republic, 1985-
International law
[SEE Nuremberg and international law]
Iran-Contra, 1985-87, n.d.
Korea, 1976-84
Labor, n.d.
Miscellaneous: printed materials, clippings, and notes, 1968-95, n.d.
General: articles, printed materials, and newspaper clippings, 1978-94, n.d.
Big Mountain Support Group, Berkeley, CA, n.d.
Carter's foreign policy and nuclear weapons
Greenham Women against cruise missiles v. Ronald Reagan, 1984
International law and nuclear weapons (includes Richard Falk, Lee Meyrowitz, and Jack Sanderson), 1958-84, n.d.
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, 1985
Neutron bomb, circa 1962-81
[SEE ALSO SERIES V. ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES - Lawyers' Emergency Committee on the Illegality of Nuclear Weapons]
Nevada - International Scientific Symposium on a Nuclear Test Ban, 1986-88, n.d.
Non-legal articles on nuclear weapons
Nuclear freeze debate, 1982
Nuclear test ban treaty, circa 1987-88
Reagan's foreign policy, 1981, n.d.
Rocky Flats, Denver, CO (Gordon Albi), n.d.
SALT II, 1981
Scientists' appeal for abolition of nuclear war, 1955
Soviet Union and nuclear weapons, 1978-81
Star Wars
Claire Sherman Thomas, 1983, n.d.
E.P. Thompson, 1981
Trident (includes Robert Aldridge, Shelley Douglass and James Douglass, Ground Zero and Pacific Life Community), 1975-83
Upper Heyford Ploughshares (England), 1990
Unidentified notes and drafts on disarmament, n.d.
Nuclear power, circa 1978-79
I.G. Farben and Karl von Krauch (includes Aaron Tilton, Gina Kalla and Brian Conlan), 1948, 1987
Nazis: general, 1950-78, n.d.
Nazis: R-S, 1950-78, n.d.
Nuremberg principles and international law
[SEE ALSO Vietnam and Nuclear disarmament]
General: printed materials, articles, and notes, n.d.
"The Promise of Nuremberg..." (material for article), 1981, n.d.
Nuremberg and Iran-Contra, circa 1987
Theories of international law and Self-determination, n.d.
"War crimes," n.d.
Nuremberg Tribunal
Harvard Law Review: articles, 1947-56, n.d.
National Lawyers' Guild article, n.d.
20th anniversary of Tribunal (includes American Friends' Service Committee), circa 1966
[SEE ALSO SERIES V. ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES - National Lawyers' Guild - Conferences, 1966]
Unidentified drafts and notes
Racism: clippings and printed materials
General, 1965-67
American Friends' Service Committee, 1973
China and Vietnam, circa 1978-79
Honeywell Project
Kissinger, Shawcross, and Cambodia, circa 1979
White House National Security Wiretaps (Nixon and Haig), n.d.
Vietnam and Nuremberg
General, 1966-75, n.d.
Benjamin Spock and draft resistance (includes letter from Michael Kaufman), circa 1966-68
Telford Taylor: transcript of television interview, 1971
War Powers Act, 1980
Weinstock, Louis, 1963
OVERSIZED MATERIAL
SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL
Articles: original (photocopy in box 1)
Memorabilia: Nathan Metlay's certificate of naturalization, 1924
Smith Act
Publicity: Clippings (originals of photocopies in box 4,8)
Smith Act Victims Self Defense Committee: poster, "We Appeal to you for a Fair Trial" (includes color copy), n.d.
Willie McGee v. [State of Mississippi]: Civil Rights Congress flier, 1950
Dialogue Publications: Articles of Incorporation, 1964
SERIES V. ORGANIZATIONS
Lawyer's Committee on American Policy: statements, n.d.
National Lawyers' Guild - New York City Chapter: newspapers
Posters (3), n.d.
Vietnam war: flyer, "Extra Blatt," 1971