Columbia University American Academic Freedom Project records, 1933-1955

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Series II: Research Files

These series contains research materials or subject files. Materials are organized alphabetically.



Box 9 Folder 14 American Medical Association, 1951


Box 9 Folder 15 AA-AM, undated


Box 9 Folder 16 Academic Freedom Contest, 1952-1953

National Council of Jewish Women


Box 9 Folder 17 Academic Freedom and Non-Secular Institutions, 1952


Box 9 Folder 18 Academic Freedom: (Statements on) Institutions, 1952-1953


Box 9 Folder 19 Academic Freedom: (Statements on) Institutions: Chicago, University of, 1951


Box 9 Folder 20 Academic Freedom: (Statements on) Institutions: Harvard University, 1948-1953


Box 9 Folder 21 Academic Freedom: (Statements on) Institutions: Yale University (Alumni Survey), 1952


Box 9 Folder 22 Academic Freedom: (Statements on) Organizations, 1951-1953


Box 9 Folder 23 Academic Freedom: (Statements on) Organizations: AAUP, 1950

American Association of University Professors


Box 9 Folder 24 Academic Freedom: (Statements on) Organizations: Chamber of Commerce, 1952-1954


Box 9 Folder 25 Academic Freedom: General Articles, 1952-1953


Box 9 Folder 26 Association of American Colleges, 1940-1951


Box 9 Folder 27 Association of American Universities (Constitution), 1946


Box 9 Folder 28 Cases: Institutions / Individuals, 1951-1953


Box 9 Folder 29 BE, 1953


Box 9 Folder 30 BI-BL, 1951


Box 9 Folder 31 BO, undated


Box 9 Folder 32 BR, undated


Box 9 Folder 33 Cases: General Listings / General List of Incidents, undated


Box 9 Folder 34 Cases: Julian Blau, Pennsylvania State College, 1953


Box 9 Folder 35 Cases: Rutgers: Antho, student undergraduate publication, undated


Box 9 Folder 36 Cases: Dorothy Alpert, 1950-1952



Box 10 Folder 1 Students, Use of: University YMCA / YWCA California, 1951


Box 10 Folder 2 Cases: CCNY Student Strike (to oust Davis and Knickerbocker), 1949-1951


Box 10 Folder 3 Cases: CCNY Knickerbocker, Prof. William E., 1948-1951


Box 10 Folder 4 Cases: CCNY Swadesh, Dr. Morris, 1949


Box 10 Folder 5 Cases: University of California Loyalty Oaths, 1949-1953


Box 10 Folder 6 Cases: Columbia University Strike, 1952

Unionization of maintenance works


Box 10 Folder 7 Cases: William Couch, University of Chicago (Director of the University Press), 1952


Box 10 Folder 8 Cases: Fordrung, Hunter College, undated


Box 10 Folder 9 Cases: Genesco State Teachers College, 1947-1951


Box 10 Folder 10 Cases: University of Illinois College of Commerce, Urbana, Illinois, 1950-1953


Box 10 Folder 11 Cases: Iowa State Teachers College (Loyalty Investigation), 1953


Box 10 Folder 12 Cases: Kansas State Teachers College (Tandy), 1953


Box 10 Folder 13 Cases: Lenz, Harold C. (Queens College), 1952


Box 10 Folder 14 Cases: Louis L. Madsen, Utah State Agricultural College, 1953


Box 10 Folder 15 Cases: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Prof. Dirk Jan Struik), 1951-1952


Box 10 Folder 16 Cases: Correspondence re: Struik, 1951


Box 10 Folder 17 Cases: Mundel, Dr. Luella R., Fairmont College, 1951-1952



Box 11 Folder 1 Cases: University of Michigan, 1948-1951


Box 11 Folder 2 Cases: University of Nebraska (Loyalty Oath), 1953


Box 11 Folder 3 Cases: University of Oklahoma (Loyalty Oaths), 1951-1952


Box 11 Folder 4 Cases: Olivet College, Olivet, Michigan (Akeley), 1949


Box 11 Folder 5 Cases: University of Oregon (Loyalty Oath), 1953


Box 11 Folder 6 Cases: Piedmont College, Demorest, Georgia (H.E. Bowen), 1952-1954


Box 11 Folder 7 Cases: Pomfret, Dr. John E. (William & Mary College), undated


Box 11 Folder 8 Cases: Puerto Rico, University of, 1948

Cruzada universitaria


Box 11 Folder 9 Cases: Sarah Lawrence College, 1952-1953


Box 11 Folder 10 Cases: Frank Richardson, University of Nevada, 1952-1953


Box 11 Folder 11 Cases: School for the Deaf, Council Bluffs, Iowa, 1952


Box 11 Folder 12 Cases: Dr. Ralph Spitzer, Oregon State College, 1949-1951


Box 11 Folder 13 Cases: State A&M of South Carolina (McMillan, Lewis K.), 1953


Box 11 Folder 14 Cases: Columbia University - Stern, Bernard J., 1953

Lecturer in sociology


Box 11 Folder 15 Cases: Struik, Prof. Dirk Jan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), undated


Box 11 Folder 16 Cases: Swadesh, Dr. Morris, CCNY, undated


Box 11 Folder 17 Cases: Texas Southern University, 1953


Box 11 Folder 18 Cases: University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1944-1952


Box 11 Folder 19 Correspondence: University of Texas, Austin, 1951-1952


Box 11 Folder 20 Cases: Vassar College (Nancy Jane Fellers, Isabel Aronin), 1949-1952


Box 11 Folder 21 Correspondence: Wiggins, Forrest Oran, 1952-1953


Box 11 Folder 22 Cases: University of Washington, 1949-1951


Box 11 Folder 23 Correspondence: University of Washington YMCA and YWCA, 1951


Box 11 Folder 24 Cases: Weltfish, Dr. Gene (Columbia University), 1952


Box 11 Folder 25 Cases: Wyoming, University of, 1948-1952


Box 11 Folder 26 Cases: (Student) Correspondence re: Leonard Saari, 1952



Box 12 Folder 1 Cases; Wiggens, Forest, University of Minnesota, 1951-1953


Box 12 Folder 2 Chapter 13: The Line of Social Tradition, 1949-1953


Box 12 Folder 3 Morals: Edith Church (Nudism), 1952


Box 12 Folder 4 Morals: Gilgoff / Rosenbaum, 1951-1953


Box 12 Folder 5 Morals: Geraldine Johnson, 1950


Box 12 Folder 6 Morals: Bauman, John (Nudism), 1951-1952


Box 12 Folder 7 Cases: Hunter College (Fordrung, William J.), 1951-1952


Box 12 Folder 8 Morals: Fothergill, Alfred A., Marshall College, 1950


Box 12 Folder 9 Emmert, W.L., Polson Superintendent of Schools, 1951


Box 12 Folder 10 Morals: Lee Lorch, CCNY, 1949-1950


Box 12 Folder 11 Cases: Akeley, T. Barton (Olivet College, Olivet, Michigan), 1948


Box 12 Folder 12 Morals: Russell, Bertrand, 1941-1951


Box 12 Folder 13 ROTC, 1950-1953


Box 12 Folder 14 Attorney General's Subversive List, 1952-1953


Box 12 Folder 15 Censorship / Banning - Speakers, Ohio State University, 1948-1953


Box 12 Folder 16 Cases: Bethune, Dr. Mary McLeod, Englewood, New Jersey Board of Education), 1952


Box 12 Folder 17 Censorship / Banning - Speakers, Fast, Howard (Hunter College), 1952


Box 12 Folder 18 Censorship / Banning - Speakers, Board of Education, Red Bank, New Jersey (Dr. Theodore B. Brameld of NYU), 1952


Box 12 Folder 19 Censorship / Banning - Speakers, Columbia University, 1951-1952


Box 12 Folder 20 Censorship / Banning - Speakers, Roosevelt College (Miss Claudia Jones), 1951


Box 12 Folder 21 Censorship / Banning - Speakers, Robeson, Paul (CCNY), 1951


Box 12 Folder 22 Censorship / Banning - Speakers, Washington, University of (General D. MacArthur), 1951


Box 12 Folder 23 Censorship / Banning - Speakers, Political (General), 1952


Box 12 Folder 24 Censorship / Banning - Speakers (General), 1950-1951


Box 12 Folder 25 Censorship / Banning - Teacher Aids (General), 1946-1951


Box 12 Folder 26 Catholics and Academic Freedom, 1951-1954



Box 13 Folder 1 Church-State and Schools, 1948-1953


Box 13 Folder 2 Civil Liberties, 1941-1952


Box 13 Folder 3 Colleges and Universities (Regional Breakdown Chart), 1951


Box 13 Folder 4 Communism: Statements Re;, A.F. of T. (at 35th Annual Convention, August 1952), 1952


Box 13 Folder 5 Controversial Issues (Teaching About), 1948-1953


Box 13 Folder 6 CH-CL, circa 1953


Box 13 Folder 7 Curriculum - Public Schools, 1951-1953


Box 13 Folder 8 DE, circa 1953


Box 13 Folder 9 Discrimination - General Information, 1946-1952


Box 13 Folder 10 E, circa 1953


Box 13 Folder 11 Ethics, 1952

The Colleges, Ethics, and the Public by Ralph E. Himstead


Box 13 Folder 12 Ethics: Psychologists, 1952



Box 14 Folder 1 FA, 1952


Box 14 Folder 2 Faculty: Employment (Laws and Regulations Governing), 1952-1953


Box 14 Folder 3 Faculty - Political Action, 1952-1953


Box 14 Folder 4 Faculty - Political Conservatives, 1953


Box 14 Folder 5 Faculty: Rights and Responsibilities, 1949-1952


Box 14 Folder 6 Faculty: Salaries, 1952


Box 14 Folder 7 Faculty - General, 1952


Box 14 Folder 8 FE, circa 1953


Box 14 Folder 9 FO-FY, circa 1953


Box 14 Folder 10 Foreign, 1950-1952


Box 14 Folder 11 Foundations, 1952-1954


Box 14 Folder 12 Foundations: Rockefeller, 1952


Box 14 Folder 13--14 General: Academic Freedom, 1949-1953


Box 14 Folder 15 GI-GO, circa 1953


Box 14 Folder 16 HAR-HEK, circa 1953


Box 14 Folder 17 Hook, Prof. Sidney (Miscellaneous Articles), 1952-1953


Box 14 Folder 18 Hullfish, H. Gordon (Keeping Our Schools Free), 1953


Box 14 Folder 19 Humor, 1948-1953


Box 14 Folder 20 Institutions: Charters / By-Laws, circa 1953


Box 14 Folder 21 Intellectual Freedom, 1953-1954


Box 14 Folder 22 Keeping Our Schools Free, H. Gordon Hullfish, 1952


Box 14 Folder 23 Library Research Aids, 1950-1951


Box 14 Folder 24 Mc, circa 1953


Box 14 Folder 25 MAA-MAN, 1952


Box 14 Folder 26 MacIver, R.M. - Academic Freedom Lectures, 1952-1954


Box 14 Folder 27 MacIver, R.M. - Proposed trip March 1953, University of Illinois, Stanford University, 1953


Box 14 Folder 28 MacIver, R.M. - Lectures Commitments (Sarah Lawrence College: Intercollegiate Conference), 1954


Box 14 Folder 29 MacIver, R.M. - Academic Freedom Radio-TV, 1953


Box 14 Folder 30 MacIver, R.M. - The New York Times, 1952-1953


Box 14 Folder 31 MacIver, R.M. - Academic Freedom New York Times - The Freedom to Search for Knowledge, 1953


Box 14 Folder 32 Television - "Horizons" December 9, 1951 (The Future of Academic Freedom), 1951-1952


Box 14 Folder 33 MacIver, R.M. - Academic Freedom Rejected Lectures, 1953-1954


Box 14 Folder 34 MAR-MAY, circa 1953


Box 14 Folder 35 Miscellaneous, 1949-1952


Box 14 Folder 36 MI-MOO, circa 1953


Box 14 Folder 37 Television - The New York Times Youth Forum, December 28, 1952, 1952-1953



Box 15 Folder 1 N, 1951


Box 15 Folder 2 National Security (Freedom and Loyalty), 1951-1952


Box 15 Folder 3 O, circa 1953


Box 15 Folder 4 Organizations, 1950-1952


Box 15 Folder 5 PA-PEM, circa 1953


Box 15 Folder 6 Cases: Pasadena College, California (Dr. W. Goslin), 1951-1953


Box 15 Folder 7 Patriotic Groups (Resolutions & Policies), 1951-1953


Box 15 Folder 8 Phi Beta Kappa, 1949-1952


Box 15 Folder 9 Publications - Lists, Catalogues, 1949-1952


Box 15 Folder 10 Publications - Lists (Federal Government), 1942-1952


Box 15 Folder 11 Public Schools: General Information, 1951-1952


Box 15 Folder 12 Public Schools: Administration, circa 1953


Box 15 Folder 13 Public Schools: NYC Board of Education, 1951-1953


Box 15 Folder 14 Public Schools: NYC Board of Higher Education, 1948-1953


Box 15 Folder 15 RA-RE, circa 1953


Box 15 Folder 16 RH-ROG, circa 1953


Box 15 Folder 17 Rights and Responsibilities, 1952-1953


Box 15 Folder 18 ROH-ROZ, circa 1953


Box 15 Folder 19 SC, circa 1953


Box 15 Folder 20 SI-SM, circa 1953


Box 15 Folder 21 SN-STA, 1952-1953


Box 15 Folder 22 Surveys: Pasadena Schools, 1952


Box 15 Folder 23 Surveys: Ralph S. Brown, Jr., Yale University Law School, 1952-1953


Box 15 Folder 24 Surveys: Academic Freedom, 1949-1953



Box 16 Folder 1 TE, circa 1953


Box 16 Folder 2 Teachers: General Information, circa 1953

Ethics for teachers: The NEA code


Box 16 Folder 3 Teachers: Organizations (International), 1951-1952


Box 16 Folder 4 Teachers: Discrimination (Racial), 1950-1952


Box 16 Folder 5 Teachers: Union Activities, 1941-1953


Box 16 Folder 6 Tenure, 1940-1952


Box 16 Folder 7 Theoretical, 1943-1953


Box 16 Folder 8 WA, circa 1953


Box 16 Folder 9 WE, circa 1953


Box 16 Folder 10 Y, circa 1953