weaken the FBI, and reduce the enforcement powers of the Federal government." This description, along with the film itself, is online at http://blogs.princeton.edu/reelmudd/2010/10/operation-abolition-and-operation-correction/. Also contains "Operation Correction," which shows the same footage as Operation Abolition, interspersed with added commentary by Ernest Besig, the Executive Director of the ACLU of Northern California. Also contains a Facts Forum program with William F. Buckley, Patrick Malin, Richard Combs, and Prof. Charles Hodges; and tapes about the Bork Nomination; Hate on Trial (1992 documentary about the trial of Tom and John Metzger, leaders of the White Aryan Resistance (WAR) for inciting the murder of Mulugeta Seraw); David Duke's Candidacy; What is Un-American? (1961; TV Debate with Fulton Lewis III, M. Stanton Evans, and Frank Donner, among others); Iran Contra Affair; The Ku Klux Klan's right to be on television; Race Relations; Flag Burning; and Anti-abortion Laws.
Finding aids:
http://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/MC001.02.06
http://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/MC001.02.06.pdf
[0087] American Civil Liberties Union Records: Subgroup 3, Series 3: Subject Files, 1969-1996, MC001.03.03
Location: Public Policy Papers, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library, 2001 Princeton University Library, One Washington Road, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
Description: The Subject Files series contains articles, reports, court documents, and other materials collected by the ACLU during the course of their work. Files on racial discrimination, the Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork, and Clarence Thomas.
Reference:
Merrell Noden, "New trove of ACLU papers opens at Mudd Library," Princeton Alumni Weekly, July 11, 2012, http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2012/07/11/pages/8542/index.xml
Websites with information:
https://blogs.princeton.edu/mudd/2012/10/american-civil-liberties-union-records-processing-completed/
Finding aid:
http://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/MC001.03.03.pdf
[0088] American Civil Liberties Union Records: Subgroup 3, Series 5: Regional Offices, 1894-2005 (bulk 1970-1990), MC001.03.05
Location: Public Policy Papers, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library, 2001 Princeton University Library, One Washington Road, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
Description: The Regional Offices series documents the work and administration of the ACLU's three regional offices: Mountain States Regional Office, concerned with civil rights in the west and Native American rights, the Southern Regional Office, focusing on civil rights in the south, and the Washington, D.C. office, which concentrates on national legislation and the actions of the federal government. The files include correspondence, case files, office publications, research files, and the papers of individual staff members. Subseries 5A: Mountain States Regional Office, contains files on Busing; Creationism; Desegregation - Schools; Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, 1994; Ku Klux Klan (KKK); and Skinheads. Subseries 5B: Southern Regional Office, contains files on ACLU Attacks and Replies, 1954-1965; Civil Rights; School Desegregation; Frank Donner; Ku Klux Klan (KKK); and Racial Crisis and Race Relations. Subseries 5C: Washington, D.C. Regional Office, contains files on Robert Bork; Civil Rights; Charles Colson; Communist Influence on the Civil Rights Movement; Robert Dole; Frank Donner; Fake Abortion Clinics; Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) / Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO), 1966-1980; Flag Desecration Amendment; Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances act of 1993, S. 636, 1993, and H.R. 796, 1993; Hate Propaganda (Plans dealing with); House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC); Hyde Amendment; Internal Security Act of 1950; Internal Security - Institutionalization of McCarthyism, 1965-1966; Iran-Contra; Ku Klux Klan (KKK); Letter to House From Former Member of Congress Bob Barr on H.R. 3313, the Marriage Protection Act, 2004; McCarran Act; Edwin Meese; MKULTRA (Central Intelligence Agency, CIA); National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie, 1976; Nicaraguan Contras; Richard Nixon; Oliver North; Lee Harvey Oswald; Religious Freedom Restoration Act; Ronald Reagan; Antonin Scalia; School Voucher Program; Clarence Thomas; Senator Strom Thurmond; and Thurmond Amendment on Religious Sub - Units to S. 557, the Grove City Bill, 1988.
Reference:
Merrell Noden, "New trove of ACLU papers opens at Mudd Library," Princeton Alumni Weekly, July 11, 2012, http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2012/07/11/pages/8542/index.xml
Websites with information:
https://blogs.princeton.edu/mudd/2012/10/american-civil-liberties-union-records-processing-completed/
Finding aid:
http://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/MC001.03.05.pdf
[0089] American Civil Liberties Union--Southern Women's Rights Project, 1976-1981, M 178
Location: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Box 842003, 901 Park Ave, Richmond, VA 23284-2003
Description: The Southern Women's Rights Project (SWRP), located in Richmond, is affiliated with the American Civil Liberties Union. The project deals with issues of special concern for women. Topics include abortion, employment discrimination, ERA, education discrimination, prisoner's rights, children's rights, sexual harassment, and spousal abuse. The series Legislation 1976-1981, contains files on Abortion, Con. Con. Project, Constitutional Convention, ERA, Ku Klux Klan, Nazis-Skokie1978, Nazis Right Wing 1978, Right to Life, Ronald Reagan, and Sterilization. The series Periodicals contains files on "The Impact of the Hyde Amendment on Medically Necessary Abortions" (ACLU) and "National Right to Life News."
Finding aids:
http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00017.xml
http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?query=right&docId=vcu-cab%2Fvircu00017.xml&chunk.id=
[0090] American Civil Liberties Union Washington, D.C. Office Records, 1948-1970, MC190
Location: American Civil Liberties Union Washington, D.C. Office Records; Public Policy Papers, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library, 2001 Princeton University Library, One Washington Road, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
Description: The ACLU is a leading defender of civil liberties in the United States. Founded in 1920, it has been the recipient of sharp criticism for its willingness to defend unpopular causes and has participated in a majority of the landmark cases to come before the Supreme Court in the twentieth century. This collection consists of the papers received and generated by the staff of the Washington, D.C. Office of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) during the 1950s and 1960s.Series 1, Irving Ferman Records, 1948-1959, documents Irving Ferman's tenure as director of the ACLU's Washington, D.C. Office. The Legislative Investigating Committees section contains records related to the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) and several folders on U.S. v. Lattimore, a case in which Owen Lattimore was charged with perjury for having falsely represented his Communist associations. The Civil Rights section, 1953-1959, documents the Washington Office's involvement with school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas, Equal Rights Amendment, and opposition to the Bricker Amendment. The Rights of Mentally Ill section, 1955-1958, contains a file on Ezra Pound. The Loyalty/Security section, 1948-1965, contains a file on a Gwinn Amendment test case. Series 2, Lawrence Speiser Records, 1951-1970, relates to his work in Washington, D.C., and in San Francisco in connection with the National ACLU and the Northern California affiliate. The Voting Rights section, 1960-1966, contains files on Literacy Tests and poll taxes and several folders on reapportionment and the Dirksen Amendment. The Court Proceedings section, 1959-1969, contains a file on Edwin A. Walker: Psychiatric Exam, 1963. The Military Justice section, 1955-1970, contains a file on Right Wing Speech: Edwin A. Walker. The Assembly & Public Protest section, 1964-1969, contains a file on Koel v. Resor regarding the defense of the American Nazi Party's right to wear their uniforms at the burial of George Lincoln Rockwell in a national cemetery. The Loyalty and Security section, 1952-1969, contains files on test cases about the requirement of an oath for tenants to live in public housing (part of the Gwinn