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Series I: Editorial Files
Series II: Research Files
Series III: Book Production Files
Series IV: Publications
Series V: Administrative Files
Series VI: Card Files

Columbia University American Academic Freedom Project records, 1933-1955

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Series I: Editorial Files

These editorial files were compiled by Robert M. MacIver and Leo Koutouzos, American Academic Freedom Project. They include the articles, newspaper clippings, newsletters, brochures, pamphlets, protest flyers, as well as some notes and summaries of events, used in the volume, Academic Freedom in Our Times. Materials are organized, for the most part, by chapter number. There are also folders with indexing terms and references by chapter.

Reference Materials for Chapter 1


Box 1 Folder 1 Chapter 1: What Academic Freedom Means, circa 1953

Censorship Cases

Articles, newspaper clippings, newsletters, brochures, pamphlets, research materials, notes and summaries of events. This appears under the published volume's Part ONe; The Climate of Opinion.

Box 1 Folder 2 Censorship: Libraries, 1948-1953

Box 1 Folder 3 Library Censorship Case: Bartlesville, Oklahoma, 1951

Box 1 Folder 4 Library Censorship Case: Boston Public Library, 1952

Box 1 Folder 5 Library Censorship Case: Salina, Kansas, 1951

Box 1 Folder 6 Library Censorship New York City Board of Education, 1949-1952

Box 1 Folder 7 Censorship: Magazines, 1951-1952

Box 1 Folder 8 Censorship: Magazine Case: The Nation, 1949

Box 1 Folder 9 Textbook Censorship Case: Morrison-Commager history textbook "Growth of the American Republic" at CCNY, 1950

Protest flyers, letters of support, reports, etc. from students at City College.

Box 1 Folder 10 Censorship: Textbook - School and Colleges (General Articles), 1951-1954

Box 1 Folder 11 Textbook Censorship Case: "Basic Economics" at Phoenix College, 1952

Box 1 Folder 12 Textbook Censorship Case: New York State Board of Regents Investigation, 1951-1952

Pressure Groups

Box 1 Folder 13 Pressure Groups: Legislative Committees - Statements by Individuals, 1953

Box 1 Folder 14 Pressure Groups: Legislative Committees - Fifth Amendment (Self-Incrimination), undated

Box 1 Folder 15 Pressure Groups: Legislative Committees - Statements by Individuals - Einstein, Albert, 1953

Box 1 Folder 16 Pressure Groups: Legislative Committees - Statements by Organizations, 1953

Box 1 Folder 17 Pressure Groups: Legislative Committees - General Articles About, 1952-1954

Box 1 Folder 18 Pressure Groups: Legislative Committees - Statements by Organizations - Columbia AAUP-AAU- Robert M. MacIver, 1953

American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the Association of American Universities (AAU)


Box 2 Folder 1 Pressure Groups: Legislative Committees - Federal, 1953

Box 2 Folder 2 Pressure Groups: Legislative Committees - Federal - Miscellaneous Investigations, 1951-1952

Box 2 Folder 3 Pressure Groups: Legislative Committees - Federal - House Un-American Activities Committee (Prior to 1953), 1945-1952

Box 2 Folder 4 Pressure Groups: Legislative Committees - Federal - House Unamerican Activities Committee (Velde: 1953), 1953

Box 2 Folder 5 Velde: 1953 Clergymen, 1953-1954

Box 2 Folder 6 Velde: Universities (1953), 1953

Box 2 Folder 7 Velde: Philadelphia and Dunham Case (1953), 1953

Box 2 Folder 8 Pressure Groups: Legislative Committees - Federal - National Science Foundation Act, 1949-1952

Box 2 Folder 9 Pressure Groups: Legislative Committees - Federal - Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (1952) Hunter College, 1952

Includes issues of the Hunter Arrow

Box 2 Folder 10 Pressure Groups: Legislative Committees - Federal - McCarran-Owen Lattimore, 1953

Box 2 Folder 11 Pressure Groups: Legislative Committees - Federal - Select Committee to Investigate Foundations (Cox), 1952-1953

Box 2 Folder 12 Pressure Groups: Legislative Committees - Federal - Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (Jenner), 1952-1953

Box 2 Folder 13 Pressure Groups: Legislative Committees - Federal - Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (McCarran), 1950-1953

Box 2 Folder 14 Pressure Groups: Legislative Committees - Federal - Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (McCarthy), 1952-1953

Box 2 Folder 15 Cox: Russell Sage Foundation (Mary Van Kleeck), 1952

Box 2 Folder 16 Pressure Groups: Legislative Committees - Federal - Select Committee to Investigate Foundations (Reece), 1953-1954

Box 2 Folder 17 Federal: Jenner (and Combs) California, 1953

Richard E. Combs, counsel for the California State Senate Committee on Un-American Activities, and Indiana Senator William E. Jenner

Box 2 Folder 18 Pressure Groups: Legislative Committees - Federal - Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (1952) Brooklyn College, 1952

Includes issues of the Brooklyn College Kingsman

Box 2 Folder 19 Federal: McCarthy Newspaper Clippings, 1952-1954

Box 2 Folder 20 Federal: Jenner Massachusetts (First Draft), 1953-1954

Box 2 Folder 21 Federal: McCarthy-Oppenheimer of AEC, 1954

J. Robert Oppenheinmer, Atomic Energy Commission

Box 2 Folder 22 Federal: Jenner Miscellaneous Investigations, 1953

Box 2 Folder 23 Pressure Groups: Legislative Committees - Federal - Smith Act, 1940-1952


Box 3 Folder 1 Pressure Groups: Legislative Committees - State, 1949-1953

Mostly on pressure on public schools

Box 3 Folder 2 Pressure Groups: Types II-IV - General Articles, 1951-1952

Box 3 Folder 3 Pressure Groups: Type II: Super-Patriotic, 1951

Box 3 Folder 4 Pressure Groups: Types II-IV - General News Clips, 1951-1954

Box 3 Folder 5 Pressure Groups: Type III: Special Interest Organizations and Lobbies, 1948-1953

Box 3 Folder 6 Pressure Groups: Type IV: Pseudo-Educational Organizations, undated

(Empty)

Box 3 Folder 7 Pressure Groups: Types II-IV: American Council of Christian Laymen (Verne P. Kaub), 1952-1953

Box 3 Folder 8 Pressure Groups: Types II-IV: American Economic Foundation, 1946-1948

Box 3 Folder 9 Pressure Groups: Types II-IV: American Flag Committee, 1951-1952

Box 3 Folder 10 Pressure Groups: Types II-IV: American Guard, 1950

Box 3 Folder 11 Pressure Groups: Types II-IV: Christian Freedom Foundation, undated

Box 3 Folder 12 Pressure Groups: Types II-IV: Church League of America, 1948-1951

Box 3 Folder 13 Pressure Groups: Types II-IV: Constitutional Foundation (San Diego, California), 1951

Box 3 Folder 14 Pressure Groups: Types II-IV: Daughters of the American Revolution, 1953

Box 3 Folder 15 Pressure Groups: Types II-IV: Fighters for Freedom, undated

Box 3 Folder 16 Pressure Groups: Types II-IV: Freedom Club of Downtown Chicago, undated

USA - Beyond the Crossroads (Documented Proof of the Plot to Socialize America) by Harry T. Everingham

Box 3 Folder 17 Pressure Groups: Types II-IV: Heritage Foundation, Inc., 1951

Box 3 Folder 18 Pressure Groups: Types II-IV: Institute for Public Service, 1949-1954

Box 3 Folder 19 Pressure Groups: Types II-IV: Institute for Applied Citizenship, 1951

Box 3 Folder 20 Pressure Groups: Types II-IV: Minute Women of the U.S., 1951-1953

Box 3 Folder 21 Pressure Groups: Types II-IV: National Association of Pro-America, 1951

Box 3 Folder 22 Pressure Groups: Types II-IV: National Society of New England Women, 1952

Box 3 Folder 23 Pressure Groups: Types II-IV: National Small Business Men's Association, 1952

Box 3 Folder 24 Pressure Groups: Types II-IV: Operation America, Inc., 1953

Box 3 Folder 25 Pressure Groups: Types II-IV: Sons of the American Revolution, 1950-1952

Box 3 Folder 26 Pressure Groups: Types II-IV: Spiritual Mobilization, 1952

Box 3 Folder 27 Pressures: Individuals, 1951-1953

Box 3 Folder 28 Pressures: Individuals Chodorov, Frank "Human Events", 1951-1953

Box 3 Folder 29 Pressures: Individuals Flynn, John T., 1951-1952

Box 3 Folder 30 Pressures: Individuals Miles, Franklin T., 1950

Reference Materials for Chapters 2-4

Newspaper clippings

Box 3 Folder 31 Chapter 2: The Structure of Public Opinion, 1953

Box 3 Folder 32 Chapter 3: Attack on UNESCO, 1951-1953

Box 3 Folder 33 Chapter 3: The New Wave of Intolerance, 1948-1953

Box 3 Folder 34 Chapter 3: Sapulpa, Oklahoma Book Burning, 1952

Box 3 Folder 35 Chapter 3: Mark Van Doren: Jersey City Junior College, 1951

Box 3 Folder 36 Chapter 4: The Champions of the New Orthodoxy, 1952-1953

Box 3 Folder 37 Chapter 4: Pressure Groups Type III Special Interest and Lobbying, 1952-1953

Box 3 Folder 38 Chapter 4: Pressure Groups Type IV Pseudo-Educational (p. 53), 1949-1952

Box 3 Folder 39 Chapter 4: Fort Monmouth - McCarthy, 1953-1954

Box 3 Folder 40 Chapters 2-4: The Climate of Opinion - General, 1953


Box 4 Folder 1 Chapter 3: US State Department - Overseas Libraries, 1953

Box 4 Folder 2 Chapter 3: Scarsdale, New York, 1950-1953

Box 4 Folder 3 Chapter 3: Textbook Censorship of "The Challenge to Democracy" and "Our Changing Social Order", 1952-1954

Box 4 Folder 4 Chapter 3: Englewood, New Jersey, 1952

Box 4 Folder 5 Chapter 3: McCarthy attack on James Wechsler, 1953

Box 4 Folder 6 Chapter 3: Denver Public Schools Public Affairs Pamphlets, 1951-1953

Box 4 Folder 7 Chapter 3: Magruder, Frank "American Government", 1949-1953

Box 4 Folder 8 Pressure Groups on Education: Correspondence, Private, 1952-1953

Reference Materials for Chapters 5-10

Box 4 Folder 9 Chapters 5-10: Academic Government, 1952-1953

Box 4 Folder 10 Chapters 5-10: Footnote References, 1950-1953

Box 4 Folder 11 Chapter 6: Case William and Mary College, 1951

Box 4 Folder 12 Chapter 7: Case [George Dinsmore] Stoddard Ouster - University of Illinois, 1953

Box 4 Folder 13 Chapter 8: Rockford College (Illinois), 1953

Box 4 Folder 14 Academic Government Chapter 6: The Governing Board, 1952

Box 4 Folder 15 Academic Government Chapter 7: The President, 1952

Box 4 Folder 16 Chapter 9: Buckley, Wm. F. "God and Man at Yale", 1951-1952

Box 4 Folder 17 Academic Government Chapter 8: The Faculty, 1950s

Box 4 Folder 18 Academic Government Chapter 9: The Alumni, 1952-1953

Box 4 Folder 19 Accrediting Agencies, 1950-1953

Box 4 Folder 20 Academic Government: Charters / By-laws of Institutions, undated

(Empty)

Institutions

These folders include correspondence with the institution and course catalogues, charters, by-laws, student handbooks and other publications with academic freedom policies.


Box 5 Folder 1 Institutions: Reed College, 1943-1953

Box 5 Folder 2 Institutions: Antioch College, 1951-1953

Box 5 Folder 3 Institutions: Bard College, 1950-1952

Box 5 Folder 4 Institutions: Barnard College, 1953

Box 5 Folder 5 Institutions: Bennington College, 1939-1952

Box 5 Folder 6 Institutions: Berea College, 1952

Box 5 Folder 7 Institutions: Black Mountain College, 1933-1951

Box 5 Folder 8 Institutions: Brandeis University, 1952

Box 5 Folder 9 Institutions: Bryn Mawr College, 1950-1951

Box 5 Folder 10 Institutions: University of Buffalo, 1943-1952

Box 5 Folder 11 Institutions: Cornell University, 1951-1953

Box 5 Folder 12 Institutions: Denison University, 1952-1953

Box 5 Folder 13 Institutions: Haverford College, 1953

Box 5 Folder 14 Institutions: Hollins College, 1952

Box 5 Folder 15 Institutions: Muhlenberg College, 1947-1951

Box 5 Folder 16 Institutions: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1952

Box 5 Folder 17 Institutions: Roosevelt College, 1949-1953

Box 5 Folder 18 Institutions: Sarah Lawrence College, 1951-1953

Box 5 Folder 19 Institutions: Simmons College, 1950-1952

Box 5 Folder 20 Institutions: Skidmore College, 1939-1952

Box 5 Folder 21 Institutions: Swarthmore College, 1951

Box 5 Folder 22 Institutions: Talladega College, 1936-1952

Box 5 Folder 23 Institutions: Wellesley College, 1946-1953

Box 5 Folder 24 Institutions: George Williams College, 1933-1952


Box 6 Folder 1 Political Controls: Federal Aid to Education, 1949-1952

Box 6 Folder 2 Political Controls: Land-Grant Colleges, 1951-1952

Box 6 Folder 3 Chapter 11: The Economic Line, 1952-1953

Box 6 Folder 4 Oklahoma A&M - Baum, Werner C., 1952-1953

Oklahoma Oath Legislation

Box 6 Folder 5 Chapter 12: The Religious Line, 1952

Box 6 Folder 6 William Penn College - Hinshaw, Cecil E., 1952

Box 6 Folder 7--8 Conscientious Objectors / Pacifists, 1951-1953

Box 6 Folder 9 Communism: Michigan Daily (Investigation), 1953

Newspaper clippings

Box 6 Folder 10 Religious: Mansoury, Ibrahim, 1951

Box 6 Folder 11 Religious: Shrob, Robert, 1951-1952

Box 6 Folder 12 Religious: Jehovah's Witness, 1952

Box 6 Folder 13 Communism: Communist Members as Teachers, 1949-1953

Box 6 Folder 14 Communism: Teaching (About), 1951-1952

Box 6 Folder 15 Communism: New York City Board of Education, 1953

Box 6 Folder 16 Communism: General, 1949-1954


Box 7 Folder 1 Loyalty Checks / Oaths: General Information, 1935-1953

Legislation: State Government

Box 7 Folder 2 Legislation: State Government, 1951

Box 7 Folder 3 Legislation: State Government - California (Burns Committee), 1952-1954

Box 7 Folder 4 Legislation: State Government - Connecticut (Loyalty Oath), 1951-1952

Box 7 Folder 5 Legislation: State Government - Illinois (Broyles Committee), 1953

Box 7 Folder 6 Legislation: State Government - Illinois Subversive Activities Act, 1951

Box 7 Folder 7 Legislation: State Government - Maryland Ober Law, 1949-1952

Box 7 Folder 8 Legislation: State Government - Massachusetts Loyalty Oath, 1951-1953

Box 7 Folder 9 Legislation: State Government - Michigan, 1952-1954

Box 7 Folder 10 Legislation: State Government - New Jersey, Thorp, Prof. George, 1950-1952

Box 7 Folder 11 Legislation: State Government - New Jersey Loyalty Oath, 1952-1953

Box 7 Folder 12 Legislation: State Government - New York (Rapp-Coudert), 1941-1953

Box 7 Folder 13 Legislation: State Government - Ohio State Un-American Activities Committee, 1952

Box 7 Folder 14 Legislation: State Government - Pennsylvania (Pechan Bill), 1951-1953

Box 7 Folder 15 Legislation: State Government - University of Texas Loyalty Oath, 1953

Student Groups


Box 8 Folder 1 Student Rights: Organizations, 1953-1954

Box 8 Folder 2 Student Rights: Banning and Censorship - Outside Speakers (Student Invited), 1950-1952

Box 8 Folder 3 Student Government: Minnesota, University of, 1951-1952

Box 8 Folder 4 Student Government: University of Illinois, College of Education, 1952

Box 8 Folder 5 Student Government: University of Wisconsin, 1952

Box 8 Folder 6 Student Government: Labor Youth League, 1950-1953

Box 8 Folder 7 Organizations: Brooklyn College, 1950-1951

Box 8 Folder 8 Student Rights: Publications, 1953

Box 8 Folder 9 University of Utah - The Academic Freedom Newsletter, 1952

Box 8 Folder 10 Brooklyn College, 1950-1953

Box 8 Folder 11 Undergraduate Newspapers: Brooklyn College Vanguard, 1950-1953

Box 8 Folder 12 Undergraduate Newspapers: University of Chicago Maroon, 1951-1952

Box 8 Folder 13 Undergraduate Newspapers: University of Georgia, 1953

Box 8 Folder 14 Student Journalism, 1951-1953

Box 8 Folder 15 Haddad, William "Bill" - St. Petersburgh Junior College, 1950

Box 8 Folder 16 Student Rights: Government, 1950-1953

Box 8 Folder 17 Undergraduate Newspapers: General, 1947-1953

Box 8 Folder 18 Student Rights: General, 1949-1952

Appendix 4

Reference materials: newspaper clippings quoted or referenced.


Box 9 Folder 1 Fifth Amendment / Self-Incrimination (General), 1949-1954

Box 9 Folder 2 Professor Reynolds of the University of Florida: House Committee (Footnote 2), 1953

Box 9 Folder 3 Account by Paul Shipman Andrews (Dean Emeritus of Syracuse University) (Footnote 3), 1953

Box 9 Folder 4 Sarah Lawrence College, 1953

Box 9 Folder 5 Heimlich-Finley of Rutgers University (Footnote 5), 1953

Box 9 Folder 6 President Grayson Kirk's University of Puerto Rico Address (Footnote 6), 1953

Includes clippings and the full text of the speech.

Box 9 Folder 7 Footnote 7, 1953

Box 9 Folder 8 Footnote 8, 1953

Box 9 Folder 9 Byron T. Darling of Ohio State University, 1953

Box 9 Folder 10 Judd, Mr. Morris, undated

Box 9 Folder 11 Pressures: Community, 1944-1953

Box 9 Folder 12 Pressures: Political, 1951

Box 9 Folder 13 Pressures on Education: State Government, circa 1953

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