Summary Information

Title: Wisconsin Civil Liberties Union Records
Inclusive Dates: 1934-1997

Creator:

• Wisconsin Civil Liberties Union

Call Number: Mss 479; M84-337; M90-112; M90-206; M92-268; M95-263; M96-142; M98-110; M2001-023; M2010-032; M2013-194

Quantity: 2.0 cubic feet (5 archives boxes); plus additions of 102.0 cubic feet (99 records center cartons, 6 archives boxes, and 3 half-archives boxes), and 1 video recording
Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Records of the Wisconsin affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union (WCLU), originally active during the 1930s, and reestablished in 1953 as a direct response to the abuse of civil liberties during the McCarthy era. Included are correspondence of the WCLU and of its predecessor, the Wisconsin chapter of the ACLU; organizational papers, minutes, financial records, activities files, subject files, and papers of WCLU member and general legal counsel, William Gorham Rice, Jr. Documentation of civil liberties activity in Wisconsin from 1940 until 1953 is fragmentary.

Note:

There is a restriction on access to and use of this material; see the Administrative/Restriction Information portion of this finding aid for details.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00479