AZ 182
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Collection Summary | |
| Creator: |
American Civil Liberties
Union of Arizona |
| Creator: |
Arizona Civil Liberties
Union |
| Collection Name | American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona records, 1958-2010 |
| Physical Description | 8.3 Linear Feet, 21 boxes |
| Abstract | Correspondence, financial reports, minutes of meetings, publications, clippings, audio tape recordings of radio broadcasts, video recordings of speeches, protests, and ACLU Follies performances, and material on various local cases and projects. Includes papers relating to the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona's establishment and operation in connection with the national civil liberties movement, the Sun City Area Chapter of the National Organization for Women, and the Arizona Legislative Coordinating Committee, an independent ad hoc committee formed to encourage passage of constructive State legislation in the field of civil rights and liberties. |
| Collection Number | AZ 182 |
| Language: | English |
| Repository |
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections University of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-621-6423 Fax: 520-621-9733 URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/ E-Mail: LBRY-askspcoll@email.arizona.edu |
Formed in 1958, the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona works to protect and defend individual rights and civil liberties. Cases and issues documented in the collection relate to cases such as challenges to a loyalty oath for state employees, the case of Henry Oyama, who successfully fought Arizona’s miscegenation law in 1959; challenging voter ID laws, abuses of immigration rights, such as Senate Bill 1070, and racial profiling and other discriminatory practices, as in a cases brought respectively against Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Maricopa Sheriff’s Office.
Correspondence, financial reports, minutes of meetings, executive director records, publications, clippings, photographs, audio tape recordings of radio broadcasts, video recordings of speeches, protests, and ACLU Follies performances, and material on various local cases and projects. Includes papers relating to the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona's establishment and operation in connection with the national civil liberties movement; the Sun City Area Chapter of the National Organization for Women, and the Arizona Legislative Coordinating Committee, an independent ad hoc committee formed to encourage passage of constructive State legislation in the field of civil rights and liberties. Local cases concern issues such as academic freedom, prayer in schools, vagrancy, and segregation. Also includes Arizona Civil Liberties Union Legislative Bulletin, 1962-1968.
There are no restrictions on this collection.
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for the University of Arizona, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.
Records of the American Civil Liberties Union national office are held by Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University
American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona records (AZ 182). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries.
2017 accession (#2017.046) processed in 2018.
| Series I: Correspondence, 1958-1967, 2003 | |||||||||||
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| Includes letters from: Arthur Goldberg, Carl Hayden, James Roosevelt, Morris K. Udall, and Stewart Udall. AzCLU Awards Dinner correspondence includes correspondence with celebrities, such as 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Alec Baldwin, as well as other planning and event materials. | |||||||||||
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| 1 | 1-6 | Correspondence-General, 1958-1967 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7-8 | Correspondence-With the American Civil Liberties Union, 1958-1967 | |||||||||
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| 2 | 1 | Correspondence-AzCLU Awards Dinner, 2003 | |||||||||
| Series II: Organizational Records, 1959-2010 | |||||||||||
| Scope and Contents | |||||||||||
| Consists of three subseries, Administrative Files, arranged alphabetically by topic, Executive Director Records, arranged chronologically, and Meeting Minutes, arranged chronologically and by chapter. | |||||||||||
| Sub Series 1: Administrative Files, 1959-1965 1996-2010 | |||||||||||
| Scope and Contents | |||||||||||
| Administrative files arranged alphabetically by subject include constitutions and by-laws, treasurer's reports, and ephemera such as print materials and brochures. | |||||||||||
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| 2 | 2 | ACLU at ASU Chapter: By-Laws, Constitution, Guide, 1998-2008 | |||||||||
| 2 | 3 | Constitution and By-laws, 1959-1965 | |||||||||
| 2 | 4 | Elections, 1959-1965 | |||||||||
| 2 | 5 | Miscellaneous Papers: Southern Area, 1959-1965 | |||||||||
| 2 | 6 | Print Materials, Brochures, 1961-1968 | |||||||||
| 2 | 7-8 | Print Materials, Brochures, Event Materials, 1996-2007 | |||||||||
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| 3 | 1 | Publicity, News Releases, Clippings, 1959-1965 | |||||||||
| 3 | 2 | Records Retention Policy, 2000-2010 | |||||||||
| 3 | 3 | Treasurers' Reports, 1959-1965 | |||||||||
| Sub Series 2: Executive Director Records, 1989-2010 | |||||||||||
| Scope and Contents | |||||||||||
| Materials relating to the office of the Executive Director, arranged chronologically, materials include correspondence, documents about the current and previous executive directors, and records from the Executive Directors' council. | |||||||||||
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| 3 | 4 | Executive Director Materials on Directors Louis Rhodes, Eleanor Eisenberg and Alessandra Soler Meetze, 1989-2009 | |||||||||
| 3 | 5 | Executive Director Correspondence, 2001-2007 | |||||||||
| 3 | 6 | Executive Directors' Council, 2006-2008 | |||||||||
| 3 | 7 | Letters to the Editor, 2002-2009 | |||||||||
| 3 | 8 | Legislature, 2010 | |||||||||
| 3 | 9-10 | Speaking Engagements, 2006-2009 | |||||||||
| Sub Series 3: Minutes of Meetings, 1959-2010 | |||||||||||
| Scope and Contents | |||||||||||
| Meetings of minutes and related materials arranged by city and regional chapters and chronologically. From 1986 forward, minutes of meetings from the State Board include minutes of both the Arizona Civil Liberties Union Board and the Arizona Civil Liberties Foundation. | |||||||||||
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| 4 | 1-2 | Minutes of Meetings: Central Chapter, 1990-2007 | |||||||||
| 4 | 3 | Minutes of Meetings: East Valley Chapter, circa 2002-2006 | |||||||||
| 4 | 4 | Minutes of Meetings: Flagstaff Chapter, 2004-2005 | |||||||||
| 4 | 5 | Minutes of Meetings: Northern Area Chapter, 1959-1965 | |||||||||
| 4 | 6 | Minutes of Meetings: Prescott/Sedona Chapter, 2004-2007 | |||||||||
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| Box 5 | 1 | Minutes of Meetings: Southern Area (Board of Directors), 1959-1974 | |||||||||
| Box 5 | 2 | Minutes of Meetings: Southern Area Chapter and AzCLU Tucson Legal Panel, 2000-2007 | |||||||||
| Box 5 | 3 | Minutes of Meetings: State Executive Board, 1959-1974 | |||||||||
| Box 5 | 4-11 | Minutes of Meetings: State Executive Board, 1969-1980 | |||||||||
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| Box 6 | 1-10 | Minutes of Meetings: State Executive Board, 1981-1992 | |||||||||
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| Box 7 | 6 | Minutes of Meetings: Tempe/Mesa Chapter, 1987-1991 | |||||||||
| Box 7 | 7 | Minutes of Meetings: West Valley Chapter, 2005-2006 | |||||||||
| Box 7 | 1-5 | Minutes of Meetings: State Executive Board, 1993-2010 | |||||||||
| Series III: Publications, 1961-2010 | |||||||||||
| Scope and Contents | |||||||||||
| Arranged chronologically, Series III contains newsletters of the Northern Area Chapter of the ACLU and ACLU Legislative Bulletin, as well as bound reports relating to civil liberties issues and cases in Arizona. | |||||||||||
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| Box 8 | 1 | With Liberty and Justice for All: An Abridgment of the Report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, 1959 | |||||||||
| Box 8 | 2 | Northern Area Newsletter No. 1-6; Report of Legal Counsel, 1961-1963 | |||||||||
| Box 8 | 3 | ACLU Legislative Bulletin, v. 1-7, 1962-1968 | |||||||||
| Box 8 | ACLU Report of an Investigation of the State of Arizona v. Ray Brisbine, and the Performance of the Town of Marana in Enforcement of the Marana Sign Code, June-Aug, 1995 | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Dealing With Delay and Fair Trial, Arizona State University, May 1999 | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Summary of Death Sentence Process: Data Set I Research Report to Arizona Capital Case Commission, Arizona State University, March 2001 | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | The Role of the States in Immigration Policy and Enforcement, Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, October 2010 | ||||||||||
| Series IV: Subject Files, 1959-2010 | |||||||||||
| Scope and Contents | |||||||||||
| Contains subject files arranged by topic. Those dating from 1959-1967 include press clippings, correspondence, and legal documents pertaining to civil liberties issues in the city of Tucson and the state of Arizona, as well as throughout the United States. | |||||||||||
| Four folders of research, correspondence, and legal documents dating from 1968-1970 pertain to the ACLU vs Garmire case, which concerned the July 1968 search, arrest, and detention of a group of 44 minors in Tucson. | |||||||||||
| Local press clipping subject files dating from 1998-2010 relate to civil liberties issues including immigration and detention, criminal justice, privacy, LGBTQ rights, religious freedom, and first amendment rights, as well as arrests of the AzCLU Executive Director and Legal Director. | |||||||||||
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| Box 9 | 1 | Projects and Cases: ACLU vs Garmire, Research Materials, Part I , 1968-1970 | |||||||||
| Box 9 | 2 | Projects and Cases: ACLU vs Garmire, Research Materials, Part II , 1968-1970 | |||||||||
| Box 9 | 3 | Projects and Cases: ACLU vs Garmire, Interrogatories, 1969 | |||||||||
| Box 9 | 4 | Projects and Cases: ACLU vs Garmire, Correspondence and Pleadings , 1968-1971 | |||||||||
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| Box 10 | 1 | Projects and Cases: "Arrest Pamphlet", 1962-1963 | |||||||||
| Box 10 | 2 | Projects and Cases: Birth Control, 1959-1961 | |||||||||
| Box 10 | 3 | Projects and Cases: Corbett-Strickler Case (Draft Deferment), 1961 | |||||||||
| Box 10 | 4 | Projects and Cases: Elfbrandt Case (Arizona Loyalty Oath), 1961-1964 | |||||||||
| Box 10 | 5 | Projects and Cases: House Un-American Activities Committee, 1960-1963 | |||||||||
| Box 10 | 6 | Projects and Cases: Koch Case (Academic Freedom), 1961 | |||||||||
| Box 10 | 7 | Projects and Cases: McEwan Case (Academic Freedom), 1961 | |||||||||
| Box 10 | 8 | Projects and Cases: Mine-Mill Case, 1962 | |||||||||
| Box 10 | 9 | Projects and Cases: Miscegenation Law, Arizona, 1959-1960 | |||||||||
| Box 10 | 10 | Projects and Cases: Miscellaneous Cases, 1961-1966 | |||||||||
| Box 10 | 11 | Projects and Cases: "Operation Correction" and "Operation Abolition", 1961 | |||||||||
| Box 10 | 12 | Projects and Cases: "Peyote Case", 1960 | |||||||||
| Box 10 | 13 | Projects and Cases: Police Relations, 1959-1964 | |||||||||
| Box 10 | 14 | Projects and Cases: Prayers in Schools, 1962-1963 | |||||||||
| Box 10 | 15 | Projects and Cases: Public Defender Law, 1962-1964 | |||||||||
| Box 10 | 16 | Projects and Cases: Registration of Felons, 1959, 1964 | |||||||||
| Box 10 | 17 | Projects and Cases: Segregation, 1959-1967 | |||||||||
| Box 10 | 18 | Projects and Cases: University of Arizona Student Symposium on Communism, 1962 | |||||||||
| Box 10 | 19 | Projects and Cases: Vagrancy and Loitering (Correspondence), 1959-1962 | |||||||||
| Box 10 | 20 | Projects and Cases: Vagrancy and Loitering (Clippings, Miscellaneous Materials), undated | |||||||||
| Box 10 | 21 | Projects and Cases: Various (CARTT, School Resource Officers, Public Accommodations), undated | |||||||||
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| Box 11 | 1 | Projects and Cases: Various (Anti-communist clippings, pamphlets, local publications), 1961-1968 | |||||||||
| Box 11 | 2 | Press clippings: Racial profiling, Bible Week, Gilbert "Character City" case, Tom Sawyer play censorship , 1999-2000 | |||||||||
| Box 11 | 3 | Press clippings: Same sex marriage, PATRIOT Act, arrest of Executive Director Eleanor Eisenberg, anti-war protests , 2001-2003 | |||||||||
| Box 11 | 4 | Press clippings: REAL ID enhanced identification, ICE deportation raids, Joe Arpaio, arrest of ACLU Legal Director Dan Pochoda, 2006-2008 | |||||||||
| Box 11 | 5 | Press Clippings: Immigration, racial profiling, prisoner rights, LGBTQ rights, privacy, 2008-2010 | |||||||||
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| Box 12 | 1-2 | Press Clippings: SB 1070 , 2010 | |||||||||
| Series V: Legislative Coordinating Committee Materials, 1961-1968 | |||||||||||
| Scope and Contents | |||||||||||
| The Arizona Legislative Coordinating Committee was an independent ad hoc committee formed to encourage passage of constructive State legislation in the field of civil rights and liberties. Administrative files, correspondence, and research materials relating to the Committee's work are arranged by type and chronologically. | |||||||||||
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| Box 13 | 1 | Legislative Coordinating Committee: Administrative Papers, Meetings, 1961-1963 | |||||||||
| Box 13 | 2 | Legislative Coordinating Committee: Correspondence, 1961-1963 | |||||||||
| Box 13 | 3 | Legislative Coordinating Committee: Miscellaneous Legislative Material (Bills, Precinct Maps, etc.), 1961-1968 | |||||||||
| Series VI: Sun City Area Chapter of NOW (National Organization for Women) records, 1980-1989 | |||||||||||
| Scope and Contents | |||||||||||
| The National Organization for Women is a feminist organization that advocates for equal rights, treatment, and opportunities for women. The Sun City Area Chapter of NOW was founded in 1980 and is still in operation. | |||||||||||
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| Box 13 | 4 | Bylaws and Operating Rules, 1980-1982 | |||||||||
| Box 13 | 5 | Meeting minutes, budgets, financial reports, treasurer's reports, 1983-1985 | |||||||||
| Box 13 | 6 | Meeting minutes, memos, 1986-1989, undated | |||||||||
| Box 13 | 7-9 | Photographs, circa 1981-early 2000s | |||||||||
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| Box 14 | 1-3 | Photographs, circa 1981-early 2000s | |||||||||
| Series VII: Photographs, 1980-early 2000s | |||||||||||
| Scope and Contents | |||||||||||
| Photographs, slides and negatives of ACLU of Arizona events, gatherings, and demonstrations, includes photos and programs of the ACLU Follies, 25th anniversary Leadership Conference (1986), and ACLU of Arizona awards dinners. Photos of events attended by Senator Dennis DeConcini and actor Ed Asner in box 19, folder 2. Photos, including photos on floppy disk,of Executive director Eleanor Eisenberg located in box 19, folder 3. | |||||||||||
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| Box 15 | 1-5 | ACLU Follies, 1980-1995 | |||||||||
| Box 15 | 6 | ACLU Follies Programs, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1987, 1989 | |||||||||
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| Box 16 | 1 | 25th Anniversary Leadership Conference, 1986 | |||||||||
| Box 16 | 2-4 | Candid and portrait photos, circa 1980s-1990s | |||||||||
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| Box 17 | 1-5 | Candid and portrait photos, circa 1980s-1990s | |||||||||
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| Box 18 | 1-6 | Candid and portrait photos, circa 1980s-1990s | |||||||||
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| Box 19 | 1-3 | Candid and portrait photos, circa 1980s-1990s | |||||||||
| Series VIII: Audiovisual Materials, 1961-2010 | |||||||||||
| Scope and Contents | |||||||||||
| Contains three DVDs, one Super 8mm film, one large and one small U-Matic tape, nine audiocassettes, three ¼" open reel audio tapes of radio broadcasts on "Operation Correction" by Tucson station KTKT, 1962 and KTAN, 1961. Materials relating to these radio broadcasts are located in Series IV: Projects and Cases: House Un-American Activities, box 10, folder 5. 45 VHS tapes contain ACLU Follies performances, protests held in Phoenix, speeches by AzCLU Executive Director Eleanor Eisenberg, local civil liberties news stories, and a series of eight 1996 conference videos from the National Family Legal Foundation, an anti-pornography advocacy group. | |||||||||||
| Box 20 | Audiovisual Materials, 1961-2010 | ||||||||||
| Box 21 | Audiovisual Materials, 1961-2010 | ||||||||||