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American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California records
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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California records
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0900
Physical Description:
736 linear feet
(1513 boxes, 3 oversize boxes)
Date (inclusive): circa 1935-1985
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
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are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, 1967. Accruals from the ACLU of Southern California were
transferred to UCLA Library in 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1980, 1985, 1986, 1990, and 1991.
Gift of Eason Monroe, 1966-69.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
994621353606533
[Identification of item], American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California Records (Collection 900). UCLA Library Special
Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Processed by Special Collections Manuscripts Division staff. Boxes 1-62 reprocessed by Amy Wong, 1995. Boxes 63-101 reprocessed
by Piyapong Phongpatanakhun, 2003.
Partially filled boxes were consolidated during reprocessing, so now boxes 102-110 no longer exist.
Final processing for boxes 419-1525 completed by Preksha Ambrish in consultation with Kelly Besser, 2023.
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) was established in 1920. It originally began as the American Union Against Militarism
in 1915 and later became the National Civil Liberties Bureau in 1917. The ACLU of Southern California was established in Los
Angeles in 1924.
Collection consists of legal, educational, and organizational files of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California.
Includes minutes, correspondence, memoranda, clippings, case files, and briefs. Topics covered in case files include the right
to counsel, women's rights, Japanese-American relocation during WWII, blacklisting in the film industry, and Crawford vs.
LA Unified School District. Also contains materials related to the local and national organizations of the ACLU.
Safeguarding civil liberties [oral history transcript] / Eason Monroe, interviewee. UCLA Oral History Department interview, 1972. Available at UCLA Library Special Collections.
American Civil Liberties Union Archives (MC #001) Available at Princeton University Library.
The National ACLU Archives, 1917-1946 (approximately) are available on microfilm through Interlibrary Loan from University
of Wisconsin Library.
For an index to the archives see:
Baskin, Alex | American Civil Liberties Papers, a guide to the records of the ACLU, 1912-1946.