Box 5

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Includes memorandums and minutes of the Academic Freedom Committee regarding various issues such as tenure and students' academic freedom. Also Board of Directors memorandums, Church-State Committee minutes and other Academic Freedom Committee and Union materials.

Scope and Contents Correspondence with American Civil Liberties Union officers including Roger N. Baldwin, American Civil Liberties Union founder; Doctor Patrick Malin, Executive Director; Alan Reitman, Assistant Director regarding various Union interests and specific requests for information on cases. Konvitz and American Civil Liberties Union political spending (July 1956-January 1957). Professor Konvitz provides a list of twelve major cases which he believes best illustrate the vindication of some of the...

Scope and Contents 1966 [1968-1970]. Correspondence with Judith Follman, Executive Officer of the Academic Freedom Committee, Konvitz comments that the faculty as a body has no right to adopt a political position, that faculty have no right to cancel classes because of a university-sponsored strike, and that it is inappropriate for colleges to give students time off to participate in political campaign activity (September 21, 1970). Also includes Academic Freedom Committee memorandums, minutes, and reports and...

Scope and Contents 1947-1951, 1955, 1964, 1967-1968, 1971. Correspondence from Roger Baldwin, American Civil Liberties Union founder. Baldwin praises Konvitz's book on immigration. Correspondence with Arthur Garfield Hayes, Doctor Konvitz states that he is not in favor of a statute against group defamation (September 5, 1947). Correspondence with George E. Rundquist regarding the areas in which the President of the United States may eliminate racial segregation by executive order. Konvitz believes that the...

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Routine materials.

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Routine Materials.

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Includes memorandums and minutes of various committees, working documents not for public distribution and other American Civil Liberties Union materials.

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1960, 1963-1964, 1966-1969. Minutes and miscellaneous materials of the Niagara Frontier Chapter, the Genesee Valley Chapter, and the Central New York Chapter.

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Memorandum from Doctor Konvitz to members of the Special Committee on the 1940 Resolution and the Constitution Committee. Konvitz advises against re-opening the 1940 Resolutions and makes suggestions regarding the structure of the National Committee (September 14, 1966 and March 8, 1966). Also memorandums and minutes of the Constitution Committee and the Joint Committee (Constitution Committee and Special Committee on 1940 Resolution) among more routine documents.

Scope and Contents Correspondence with Alan Reitman, Association Director, regarding the Pulse of Freedom, a history f five decades of civil liberties for which Konvitz authored a chapter. In correspondence with the Honorable Ramsey Clark, Chairman of the National Advisory Council, Konvitz comments that the American Civil Liberties Union should not support or oppose candidates for elective or appointive positions (March 17, 1972). Professor Konvitz also comments on the Academic Freedom Committee's proposed...