American Civil Liberties Union - Ithaca Chapter., 1967-1971

Correspondence with Dorothy Shields, Upstate New York Division of the New York Civil Liberties Union regarding Konvitz's successful efforts to have the mayor of Ithaca issue a permit enabling a march against the Vietnam war. Konvitz talked to the marchers before they left campus urging them not to react to any provocations and arranged for a number of local attorneys to be present (May 24, 1967). Konvitz took the minutes of the May 17, 1967 meeting of the Ithaca Civil Liberties Committee, of which he was Chairman. With Shields regarding establishing an active civil liberties program in Tompkins County (establishing an Executive Committee). Konvitz mentions that the Ithaca Civil Liberties Committee would like to establish closer relations with the students and that he sees no reason why, in addition to students continuing t have their own organization, they should not also be members of the larger Tompkins county group (December 20, 1968). Letter and Constitution of the Cornell Student Chapter, New York Civil Liberties Union (February14, 1967); by-laws of the Tompkins County Chapter, New York Civil Liberties Union; New York Civil Liberties Union memorandum to Tompkins County members; minutes of the Genesee Valley Chapter, the Niagara Frontier Chapter and the Central New York Chapter; and other routine materials.