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
Historical Note
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.
Scope and Content Note
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.
Organization
This collection is organized into eight series and three subseries:
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.
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.
box
folder
1
1-6
Correspondence-General, 1958-1967
1
7-8
Correspondence-With the American Civil Liberties
Union, 1958-1967
Consists of three subseries, Administrative Files, arranged alphabetically by
topic, Executive Director Records, arranged chronologically, and Meeting
Minutes, arranged chronologically and by chapter.
Administrative files arranged alphabetically by subject include
constitutions and by-laws, treasurer's reports, and ephemera such as
print materials and brochures.
box
folder
2
2
ACLU at ASU Chapter: By-Laws, Constitution,
Guide, 1998-2008
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.
box
Folder
3
4
Executive Director Materials on Directors Louis Rhodes,
Eleanor Eisenberg and Alessandra Soler Meetze, 1989-2009
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.
box
folder
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
folder
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
folder
Box 6
1-10
Minutes of Meetings: State Executive Board, 1981-1992
folder
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
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.
folder
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
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.
folder
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
folder
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
folder
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
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.
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.
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.
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.