Guide to the Records of the Committee on Academic Freedom during the loyalty oath controversy, 1949-1952

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Guide to the Records of the Committee on Academic Freedom during the loyalty oath controversy, 1949-1952

Collection number: CU-9.26

University Archives, The Bancroft Library



University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California

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Collection Summary

Collection Title: Records of the Committee on Academic Freedom during the loyalty oath controversy,
Date (inclusive): 1949-1952
Collection Number: CU-9.26
Creator: University of California (System). Academic Senate. Northern Section. Committee on Academic Freedom
Extent: Number of containers: 2 boxes Linear feet: 0.6
Repository: The Bancroft Library. University Archives.
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Information for Researchers

Access

Collection is open for research.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Records of the Committee on Academic Freedom during the loyalty oath controversy, CU-9.26, University Archives, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Scope and Content

These records represent primarily the files of the chair of the committee, Wendell Stanley. Included are correspondence, position papers, statements of support, and other materials.

box 1, folder 1

Committee report: The consequences of the abrogation of tenure, Feb. 1, 1951

folder 2

Correspondence, 1949-July 1950

folder 3

Correspondence, Sept-Dec 1950 (nothing in August)

folder 4

Correspondence, Jan-Aug 1951

folder 5

Correspondence, Sept-Dec 1951

folder 6

Correspondence, 1952

folder 7

Academic Senate statements, reports, etc.

folder 8

Bisson, T.A. Statement, 1952

folder 9

Deutsch, Monroe E. "Academic tenure at the University of California" n.d. (after Oct 1950)

folder 10

Deutsch, Monroe E. "Let there be light on academic freedom" Speech, 1951

folder 11

Hodgen, Margaret T. "Karl Marx and the social scientists" Reprint of article, 1951

folder 12

Radin, Max. "The loyalty oath at the University of California" Typescript of article that originally appeared in the American Scholar, Summer 1950, with an addendum by the editors of another publication

folder 13

Sproul, Robert Gordon. Charter Day banquet speech, 1953

folder 14

Miscellaneous notes. Mainly unidentified manuscript notes, presumably by Stanley

folder 15

Membership and mailing lists

box 2, folder 1-2

Position papers, statements, etc., from other institutions and groups

folder 3

Galleys of Committee's interim report, Feb. 1951

folder 4

California legislative bills relating to loyalty oaths, 1951