Local Correspondence, 1973-1992

File — Box: 93, Folder: 1-3

Identifier: III

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series: The materials in this series are arranged according to civil liberties issue. The material in each subject is grouped in the following order: Utah affiliate correspondence (including national office correspondence explicitly related to the Utah ACLU); national ACLU correspondence; documents stemming from the activities of other organizations; articles, reports, and other monographs; legislative records; court documents for Utah cases (whether or not the ACLU was involved); court documents for non-Utah court cases (these have a state, country, or jurisdictional notation); reference material discussing relevant litigation (hereafter referred to as "case citations"); handwritten notes; newsletters; brochures; news clippings; and miscellaneous items. Notes and news clippings are not indexed. While some of the issue subjects provide enough material to occupy several boxes and be separated into distinct subject folders, others only occupy several, or even one, folders. In these cases, items such as local and national correspondence are not differentiated, and items that otherwise would be separated, such as news clippings, brochures, newsletters, notes and miscellaneous, have been combined into one "miscellaneous" file. Many of the activities of the ACLU, and the cases they were involved in, cover several different civil liberties issues. (For instance, an employment discrimination case involving religious issues.) As a result, a researcher should be prepared to consider these alternate classifications when searching for materials. Some subtopics for which significant amounts of material have been found are separated into distinct categories. For example, materials discussing religion are separated from other first amendment materials and documents discussing prayer are further separated. Likewise, the topic of abortion has been handled as an area distinct from other women's issues.

Dates

1973-1992

Conditions Governing Access

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.