National Committee Against Repressive Legislation Records, 1948-2003

 
Container Title
M97-026
Part 12 (M97-026): Additions, 1956, 1960-1995
Physical Description: 9.4 c.f. (9 record center cartons and 1 archives box) and 26 photographs 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, consisting of administrative records mainly covering the period 1975-1995 and legal files relating to the 1989 law suit Wilkinson v. FBI which overturned the conviction of Frank Wilkinson for refusal to testify before HUAC in 1959. The administrative records include correspondence and memoranda of NCARL and the First Amendment Foundation, an independent subsidiary; meeting minutes; news clippings and flyers; reports; information on fieldwork and relations with related local organizations; subject files; and files on special projects such as petition drives and other efforts to influence legislation concerning the First Amendment such as H.R. 50 (the First Amendment Protection Act). The FBI legal files, 1979-1991, include briefs and court documents, transcripts, correspondence of attorneys Douglas E. Mirell of Loeb and Loeb and Paul A. Hoffman of the ACLU, clippings, and press material. Photographs are mainly of Frank Wilkinson speaking in front of various groups and of a 1991 anti-Persian Gulf War rally in Washington, D.C.
Series: Administrative Records
1960-1975
Correspondence
Box   1
Folder   1-6
Incoming, 1970-1975
Box   1
Folder   7-13
Outgoing, 1968, 1970-1975
Box   1
Folder   14
National Committee to Abolish HUAC, 1967
Box   1
Folder   15-16
NCARL Board, 1972-1973
Box   1
Folder   17
National Committee to Abolish HUAC Coordinating Committee, 1970
Box   1
Folder   18-19
Staff, 1970, 1974
Box   1
Folder   20-30
News clippings, 1960, 1965, 1967-1975
Box   1
Folder   31-33
Reports, 1970-1971, 1975
Box   1
Folder   34
Minutes, 1969, 1973, 1975
Field work
Box   1
Folder   35-41
General, 1964, 1970-1975
Box   1
Folder   42
Massachusetts CARL, 1971-1974
Box   1
Folder   43
Southern CARL, 1972
Information
Box   1
Folder   44
Bibliography of news items, 1966-1970
Box   1
Folder   45
Bolling Committee Recommendations, 1974
Box   1
Folder   46
Emergency Meeting to Fight Repression, 1970
Box   1
Folder   47
Hearings to Repeal the Emergency
Detention Act of , 1950
Box   1
Folder   48
Legislative Alert, 1972
Box   1
Folder   49
National Lawyers Guild/NCARL Benefit, 1975
Box   1
Folder   50
Repeal of No-Knock Entry, 1973
Box   1
Folder   51
D.C. CARL Newsletter, 1973
Box   1
Folder   52
Porter, Charles O., 1975
Box   1
Folder   53
Publications, 1968
1976
Box   1
Folder   54-55
Correspondence
Box   1
Folder   56
News clippings, 1976-1977
Box   1
Folder   57
Supreme Court Syllabi
Box   1
Folder   58
Campaign to Stop Government Spying
Box   1
Folder   59
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Box   1
Folder   60
Annual meeting
Box   1
Folder   61
Field Work
1977
Box   1
Folder   62
Southern California Red Squad Campaign
Box   1
Folder   63
NCARL Board
1978
Box   1
Folder   64
Board
Box   1
Folder   65
Correspondence
Box   1
Folder   66
News clippings
Box   1
Folder   67
Minutes
Box   1
Folder   68-69
Correspondence
Box   1
Folder   70
News clippings
Box   1
Folder   71
Board
Box   1
Folder   72
Criminal Code Revision/FBI Charter
Box   1
Folder   73
Annual meeting minutes
Box   1
Folder   74
Annual report
1980
Box   1
Folder   75-76
Correspondence
Box   1
Folder   77
News clippings
Box   1
Folder   78
Packet from the Church of Scientology
Box   1
Folder   79
ACLU-SU Speakers Committee, 1977-1985
Box   2
Folder   1
Citizens Commission on Police Repression, 1976-1984
1981-1985
Box   2
Folder   2
NCARL Board, 1980-1981
Box   2
Folder   3-5
Correspondence
Box   2
Folder   6-7
Meetings, 1981-1985
Box   2
Folder   8
Fieldwork press and flyers
Box   2
Folder   9
News clippings
Box   2
Folder   10
FBI guidelines
Box   2
Folder   11
FAF (First Amendment Foundation)/NCARL projects
1987-1989
Box   2
Folder   12
NCARL Board, 1989
Box   2
Folder   13-20
Correspondence
Box   2
Folder   21-22
Fieldwork
Box   2
Folder   23
News clippings
Box   2
Folder   24-26
“Paste ups”
Box   2
Folder   27-29
Reports
Box   2
Folder   30
CCDBR Board of Directors list
Box   2
Folder   31
Members of class action suit
Box   2
Folder   32
H.R. 50 FBI First Amendment Protection
1990
Box   3
Folder   1-6
Correspondence
Box   3
Folder   7
Coordinating Committee
Field work
Box   3
Folder   8
Press and flyers
Box   3
Folder   9
Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights
Box   3
Folder   10
News clippings
Box   3
Folder   11
Petition Materials
1991
Box   3
Folder   12
Board
Box   3
Folder   13
Coordinating Committee
Box   3
Folder   14-20
Correspondence
Box   3
Folder   21
Meetings and Conventions
Box   4
Folder   1
News clippings
Box   4
Folder   2
Reports
Box   4
Folder   3
Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights
Box   4
Folder   4
Criley
Box   4
Folder   5
Earth First
Box   4
Folder   6
Emerson, Thomas
Box   4
Folder   7
H.R. 50 FBI First Amendment Protection Act
Box   4
Folder   8
“Paste ups”
Box   4
Folder   9
Press and flyers
1992
Box   4
Folder   10
Board/Family
Box   4
Folder   11
Coordinating Committee
Box   4
Folder   12-17
Correspondence
Box   4
Folder   18
“Paste ups”
Fieldwork
Box   4
Folder   19
Reports
Box   4
Folder   20
Press and Flyers
Box   4
Folder   21
News clippings
Box   4
Folder   21a
News clippings of Members
Box   4
Folder   22
Office Information
Box   4
Folder   23
Alexander, Chauncey
Box   4
Folder   24
Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights
Box   4
Folder   25
“Creation of an American King Who Could Not Do Wrong”
Box   4
Folder   26
Democratic Platform cover letter
Box   4
Folder   27
Hoffman, Paul
Box   4
Folder   28
H.R. 50
Box   4
Folder   29
Personal
Box   4
Folder   30
Sustainer letters
Box   4
Folder   31
Vivian, Reverend C.T.
1993
Box   5
Folder   1
NCARL Coordinating Committee
Box   5
Folder   2
FAF (First Amendment Foundation) Coordinating Committee
Box   5
Folder   3-10
Correspondence
Fieldwork
Box   5
Folder   11
Press and flyers
Box   5
Folder   12
Schedules and notes
Box   5
Folder   13-14
News clippings
Box   5
Folder   15
Alexander, Chauncey
Box   5
Folder   16
Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights
Box   5
Folder   17
Constitutional law
Box   5
Folder   18
H.R. 50
Box   5
Folder   19
Personal-Wilkinson
Box   5
Folder   20
Reports
Box   5
Folder   21
Sustainer letters
1994
Box   5
Folder   22
Board
Box   5
Folder   23-24
Coordinating Committee
Box   5
Folder   25
Staff
Box   5
Folder   26-30
Correspondence
Box   6
Folder   1-4
Correspondence (continued)
Fieldwork
Box   6
Folder   5
Notes
Box   6
Folder   6
Press and flyers
Box   6
Folder   7
Notes related to New York fieldwork
Box   6
Folder   8
Reports
Box   6
Folder   9
News clippings
Box   6
Folder   10
ACLU/SC Legislative Action Committee
Box   6
Folder   11
Alexander, Chauncey
Box   6
Folder   12
Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights
Box   6
Folder   13
Curry/Alexander
Box   6
Folder   14
H.R. 50
Box   6
Folder   15
Constitutional Law Advisors
Box   6
Folder   16
First Amendment Foundation (FAF) Board Nominations
Box   6
Folder   17
Sawyer, David
Box   6
Folder   18
Sustainer letters
Box   6
Folder   19
Treleven, Dale regarding Oral History Conference
Box   6
Folder   20
Vidal, Gore
1995
Box   6
Folder   21
Coordinating Committee
Box   6
Folder   22-28
Correspondence
Box   6
Folder   29
Fieldwork press and flyers
Box   6
Folder   30
News clippings
Box   6
Folder   31
Additional information
Box   7
Folder   1
ACLU/ADA Dinners
Box   7
Folder   2
Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights
Box   7
Folder   3
Cole, David
Box   7
Folder   4
Conference to Defend Diversity
Box   7
Folder   5
Law Related Education
Box   7
Folder   6
Law School/National Lawyers Guild
Box   7
Folder   7
NCARL Wisconsin/Minneapolis
Box   7
Folder   8
Past events
Box   7
Folder   9
Personal correspondence
Series: FBI Files
Box   7
Folder   10
, 1956 Wilkinson testimony to HUAC
Box   7
Folder   11
, 1961 Wilkinson v. US
Box   7
Folder   12-14
, 1979 Criley analysis of FBI documents on NCARL and original documents
1980-1989
Box   7
Folder   15-28
General court documents
Box   8
Folder   1-4
Coram Nobis writ
Box   8
Folder   5
Correspondence
1990
Box   8
Folder   6-8
Court documents
Box   8
Folder   9-10
Criley paper, “FBI v. The First Amendment”
Box   8
Folder   11
CS Fund Grant report
Box   8
Folder   12
“FBI documents for BBC, returned 1992”
Box   8
Folder   13
Merrill declaration
Box   8
Folder   14-15
Press conference and press material
Box   8
Folder   16
Transcripts of court documents
Box   8
Folder   17
Miscellaneous reference to NCARL in FBI documents
Box   8
Folder   18-21
Clippings and miscellany, 1981-1988
Series: Publicity and Information
Box   10
Folder   13
Literature inventory
Literature and flyers
Box   8
Folder   22
1965-1980
Box   9
Folder   1-3
1991-1995
Box   9
Folder   4
Assorted mailings, 1965-1995
Box   9
Folder   5-22
Clippings, 1960-1995
Series: Subject Files
Box   9
Folder   23
Bill of Rights Foundations, 1984-1989
Box   9
Folder   24
CISPES (Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador)
Box   9
Folder   25
Conference on First Amendment v. FBI, 1991
Box   10
Folder   1-2
Counter-terrorism bill, 1995
Box   10
Folder   3
Covert action by US government
Box   10
Folder   4
Criley's book, The FBI v. The First Amendment, advertising
Box   10
Folder   5
Lesar v. CIA
Box   10
Folder   6
National Lawyers Guild
Box   10
Folder   7
News clippings, 1961
Box   10
Folder   8
Organizational material, 1962-1975
Box   10
Folder   9-10
Petition Drive regarding H.R. 50
Box   10
Folder   11
Secrecy, 1982
Box   10
Folder   12
Wiretapping and Crime Bill, 1994
PH Box   14
Series: Photographs
Scope and Content Note: Includes images of Frank Wilkinson, 1993; rallies and meetings, 1990-1991; and other individuals.