Amnesty International of the USA Inc. Michael Nelson Papers, 1970-1995, bulk 1978-1993

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Series I: General, 1970-1995

The collection has been left in its original order. Folders were clearly labeled but not arranged according to any obvious method.



Box 1 Folder 1-5 American Psychiatric Association--Mailings, 1985-1986, 5 folders



Box 2 Folder 34-36 American Psychiatric Association--Mailings, 1982-1989, 3 folders



Box 1 Folder 6 Death Penalty Program, 1980


Box 1 Folder 7 Psychological Effects of Torture Detention and Exile--Thesis by Carlos Gonzales, 1978


Box 1 Folder 8 Cohn Clark, 1981


Box 1 Folder 9 AI Medical Capacity Committee--Mailings, 1979


Box 1 Folder 10 AI Position on Maze Prison in Northern Ireland, 1980


Box 1 Folder 11 Report and Decisions of the 14th International Council of Amnesty International, 1981 August 20-23


Box 1 Folder 12 Personality Types Among Abnormal Homicides, 1970


Box 1 Folder 13 AIUSA Executive Committee Minutes, 1982 February 5


Box 1 Folder 14 Supplementary Information Comparison of Actual with Budget, 1982


Box 1 Folder 15 Death Penalty, 1982


Box 1 Folder 16 An International Personality: Notes on the International Consultation on AI's Public Image, 1982


Box 1 Folder 17 Guinea Campaign, 1982


Box 1 Folder 18 Banned Films, 1982


Box 1 Folder 19 Financial Statements, 1982


Box 1 Folder 20 AI International Executive Committee Reports, 1982


Box 1 Folder 21 Campaign Against the Death Penalty, 1982


Box 1 Folder 22 Guatemala Embassy, 1982


Box 1 Folder 23 Guatemala Correspondence, 1982


Box 1 Folder 24 Update to Board Report of November 5, 1982


Box 1 Folder 25 Report on the Region (Western Regional), 1982


Box 1 Folder 26 General Including Financial Information, 1982


Box 1 Folder 27 Draft Budgets, 1989


Box 1 Folder 28 Human Rights and the Repression Trade, 1980


Box 1 Folder 29 Draft of Two-Year Plan for 1984 and 1985, 1983


Box 1 Folder 30 AI Calendar, 1989


Box 1 Folder 31 AI Calendar Update, 1983


Box 1 Folder 32 PSC-CUNY Research Award Program Evaluation Criteria for Reviews, 1984-1985


Box 1 Folder 33 Health Professionals, 1985


Box 1 Folder 34 Boston Medical Group--Minutes, General, 1981


Box 1 Folder 35 AI Medical Groups, 1981


Box 1 Folder 36 Panel Discussion on Torture, 1981



Box 2 Folder 1 AI Medical Groups, 1981


Box 2 Folder 2-4 Psychiatry and Psychiatrists Against Psychiatric Abuse, Other Psychiatric Institutes, 1980-1981, 3 folders

Restricted until 2062-2065.


Box 2 Folder 5 Co-Group for Prisoners in the USSR--Reports, 1977-1979

Restricted until 2063.


Box 2 Folder 6 Soviet Psychiatrists, 1978

Restricted until 2062.


Box 2 Folder 7 Worker's Group in USSR, 1978

Restricted until 2062.


Box 2 Folder 8-9 Psychiatry Abuse in the Soviet Union, 1978, 2 folders


Box 2 Folder 19 Task Force Against the Abuse of Psychiatry for Political Ends, 1978


Box 2 Folder 20-21 Abuse of Psychiatry--Argentina, South Africa, Romania, 1978-1979, 2 folders


Box 2 Folder 22 World Psychiatric Association, undated


Box 2 Folder 23 General, 1979


Box 2 Folder 24 Psychiatry--General, 1990


Box 2 Folder 25-28 Death Penalty, 1980-1981, 4 folders


Box 2 Folder 29-30 Articles on Torture, 1982, 2 folders


Box 2 Folder 31-32 AI International Secretariat--Units and Departments, General, undated, 2 folders


Box 2 Folder 33 AIUSA Group IS, 1989



Box 3 Folder 1-2 Argentina Medical Concerns/Torture, 1978-1979, 2 folders


Box 3 Folder 3 Brazil--Medical/Torture, 1980


Box 3 Folder 4 Chile, 1979


Box 3 Folder 5 Cuba, 1978


Box 3 Folder 6 Paraguay, 1979

Restricted until 2063.


Box 3 Folder 7 Iran--Medical/Torture, 1978


Box 3 Folder 8 Abuse of Psychiatry in Romania, 1978


Box 3 Folder 9 Prison Conditions, 1980


Box 3 Folder 10 Abuse of Psychiatry, 1979


Box 3 Folder 11-15 Death Penalty--General, 1982-1990, 5 folders


Box 3 Folder 16 Soviet Co-Group, 1984


Box 3 Folder 17 Anthony Antone Information for Dr. Nelson, 1984


Box 3 Folder 18 Homicide--Michael Nelson, 1984


Box 3 Folder 19 Americans for Human Rights, 1983


Box 3 Folder 20 Refugees, 1980


Box 3 Folder 21 Massachusetts Psychiatric Society--Task Force on Psych. Abuse, 1976-1979


Box 3 Folder 22 Death Penalty Notes, undated


Box 3 Folder 23-24 Penal Reform Project, 1978, 2 folders


Box 3 Folder 25 Death Penalty Article, undated


Box 3 Folder 26 Uruguay--Medical Coordinator/Torture, 1979


Box 3 Folder 27 Penal Reform Project, 1978



Box 4 Folder 1-4 William Thompson v. State of Florida, v.I-III, undated


Box 4 Folder 5 Legal Documents from Coblentz, Cohen, McCabe, and Breyer in San Francisco to Nelson, 1978


Box 4 Folder 6 AIUSA Working Group on Psychiatric Abuse, 1980


Box 4 Folder 7 AI Cases, 1978

Restricted until 2062


Box 4 Folder 8-9 Abuse of Psychiatry for Political Ends, 1976-1981, 2 folders


Box 4 Folder 10 Abuse of Psychiatry--Working Group (UK), 1979


Box 4 Folder 11 AIUSA Work on US Psychiatric Abuse, 1990


Box 4 Folder 12-14 Psychiatric Abuse--World Congress, 1978



Box 5 Folder 1 American Psychological Association (APA) Committee on Human Rights, 1984-1985


Box 5 Folder 2-5 Torture, Doctors, American Psychological Association --Articles, 1986-1990, 4 folders


Box 5 Folder 6 Long-Term Physical and Psychological Sequelae of Torture on 44 Victims Examined in the United States, 1983


Box 5 Folder 7-11 Campaign for the Abolition of Torture, 1976-1982, 5 folders


Box 5 Folder 12 Executive Committee Meeting, 1979


Box 5 Folder 13 Prevention of Torture--Working Group, 1979


Box 5 Folder 14 Executive Committee Meeting, 1979


Box 5 Folder 15 Prevention of Torture--Working Group, 1979


Box 5 Folder 16 Task Force--Membership, 1978


Box 5 Folder 17 AI Personnel, 1979


Box 5 Folder 18-20 AI--Information and Organization, 1976-1980, 3 folders



Box 6 Folder 1-2 Campaign Against Torture (CAT)--Organization, 1980-1981, 2 folders


Box 6 Folder 3 AI Statutes and Handbooks, 1981


Box 6 Folder 4 Regional Correspondence--Medical Capacity Committee, 1979-1980


Box 6 Folder 5 Medical Ethics and Human Rights, undated


Box 6 Folder 6-7 Human Rights Covenants, 1978-1979, 2 folders


Box 6 Folder 8 Human Rights Education, 1981


Box 6 Folder 9 AIUSA Program Committee, undated


Box 6 Folder 10 AI International Committee, 1983


Box 6 Folder 11 Selected AI Papers, 1982


Box 6 Folder 12 American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1982


Box 6 Folder 13 Use of AIs Name--Hilary, Work On Own Country, 1992-1993


Box 6 Folder 14 Strategic Plan, 1995


Box 6 Folder 15 Strip Searching, 1991


Box 6 Folder 16 IS Structures, 1993


Box 6 Folder 17 AIUSA Rural Organizing, 1991


Box 6 Folder 18 AI Religious Target Section, undated


Box 6 Folder 19 Racism Workshop, 1993