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This subseries consists of publications produced by the ACLU and is broken down into the following sections:

Annual Reports are inclusive for 1921-1994. Arranged chronologically, the annual reports are most comprehensive for the 1920s through the 1960s, with some reports over one hundred pages in length. From the 1970s to the present, the reports are brief recapitulations of the previous year's work.

Organizational manuals are internal guides established to assist new employees at the national and affiliate offices in their orientation to the ACLU. The manuals are arranged chronologically and were written in 1968, 1975, and 1976.

Pamphlets, 1917-1993, including publications from the National Civil Liberties Bureau. The pamphlets cover a wide variety of civil liberties issues pertinent to the time period in which they were written, including conscientious objection, labor disputes, alien rights, free speech, censorship, loyalty and security, church/state matters, and academic freedom. They are arranged by decade and then alphabetically.

Policy Guides are arranged chronologically. Guides dated from 1938 to 1966 deal with specific civil liberties issues. With the expansion of the ACLU and its growing number of state affiliates, in 1966 the ACLU wrote a comprehensive guide to all their policies to ensure that policy decisions throughout the organization remained uniform. Policy Guides were either reissued or updated every few years and this subseries includes guides and updates through 1992.

Press Releases, 1926-1990, are arranged chronologically and contain official news releases produced by the ACLU.

Rights of... books are a series of publications begun in 1968 dealing with the rights of specific groups in society. The books are basic legal guides for the lay person. Included are books on the rights of authors, crime victims, prisoners, teachers, students, hospital patients, young people, parents, and older persons. They are arranged alphabetically by title.

Serials are arranged alphabetically and then chronologically. The serials are broken down into two parts: one for the earlier publications (1920s to 1950s) and one for later publications (1950s- 1990s). The earlier serials include Weekly Press Bulletins and the Law and Freedom Bulletins. The later serials include publications by ACLU Foundation projects such as the National Prison Project Journal produced by the National Prison Project, Reproductive Rights Update produced by the Reproductive Freedom Project, and First Principles produced by the Center for National Security Studies. Also included is The Civil Liberties Review, a scholarly civil liberties journal produced in the mid-1970s.

The Textbooks section consists of a few texts produced in the mid-1970s and contains books from the "To Protect These Rights" series.

See also the Oversized Materials listings.

Printed Material, except for the Rights of... books, can also be found in the UMI and MCA microfilm collections. These records also include Civil Liberties, 1931-1992, the ACLU's monthly/quarterly publication for its membership. The records are complete for 1966-1992. Affiliate publications are also found.

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This subseries consists of printed material culled from the Subject Files (Series 3) and includes monographs, journals, newsletters, magazines, reports, newspapers, press releases and some press clippings. Much of the material deals with various topics related to the main subjects.

Some of the better represented subjects include: academic freedom which includes The Last Resort, a periodical about corporal punishment, with issues from the 1970s and 1980s; mass communications printed material which consists primarily of publications dealing with cable television; and the international civil liberties subdivision which includes publications from and about Germany, Great Britain, Guam, Japan, Korea, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Also included are United Nations publications and material from the American Association for the United Nations and the Conference Group of U.S. National Organizations on the United Nations.

Military rights which consists primarily of publications culled from the Amnesty Project subseries is another well represented subject. Topics cover amnesty for draft resisters and the social issues relating to the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement. It includes publications from the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO) and Vietnam Veterans Against the War/Winter Soldier Organization (VVAW/WSO). Press clippings are also included under this subject.

Other subjects are: censorship (which includes publications from the National Coalition Against Censorship); Labor and Business which consists primarily of union magazines and newsletters; lesbian and gay rights printed material which includes Mattachine publications from the 1950s; loyalty and security which includes a semi-complete run of Counterattack from 1947-1951; and Native Americans which contains Indian Truth from 1946-1978 (sporadic).

Other subjects found in this subseries include assembly and public protest, children's rights, church and state, civil rights, court proceedings, environment, police practices, poverty and civil liberties, privacy, and women's rights.

See also the Oversized Materials listing.

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