ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION    

Title
New York Civil Liberties Union. Suffolk County (New York) Chapter Collection

Collection Number
SC 226

OCLC Number
156794760

Creator 
Suffolk County Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union 
Various

Provenance 
Gift of the Suffolk County Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union in 1975, 1979.

Extent, Scope, and Content Note
Records, 1966-1974.
2 cubic ft.
Chapter of the legal activist organization dedicated to the protection of constitutional rights for United States citizens.
The collection includes minutes, correspondence, secretary and committee files, clippings, agendas, brochures, press releases, flyers, reports, notes, and American Civil Liberties Union publications and artifacts. 

Arrangement and Processing Note
Finding aid updated and revised by Kristen J. Nyitray in April 2020.

Language
English

Restrictions on Access
Some restricted files. Contact department for more information.

Rights and Permissions 
Stony Brook University Libraries' consent to access as the physical owner of the collection does not address copyright issues that may affect publication rights. It is the sole responsibility of the user of Special Collections and University Archives materials to investigate the copyright status of any given work and to seek and obtain permission where needed prior to publication.  

Citation 
[item], [Box], New York Civil Liberties Union. Suffolk County (New York) Chapter Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, Stony Brook University Libraries.

Historical Note
Under review.

Subjects
Civil rights -- New York (State) -- Suffolk County.
Long Island (N.Y.) -- Societies, etc.
Civil rights.
Societies.
New York (State) -- Long Island.
New York (State) -- Suffolk County.

INVENTORY

Box 1
Minutes and agendas (1966)
Minutes and agendas (1967) (2 folders)
Minutes and agendas (1968)
Minutes and agendas (1969)
Minutes and agendas (1970)
Minutes and agendas (1971) (2 folders)
Minutes and agendas (1972) (2 folders)
Minutes and agendas (1973)
Minutes and agendas (1974)
Minutes, notes

Box 2
ACLU (2 folders)
ACLU: legal docket (July 1972)
ACLU: policy guide (6 folders)

Box 3
ACLU: policy guide (1 folder)
Board of Directors
Correspondence (2 folders)
Elections
"Hoffmann" files (3 folders)
Impeachment
Legislative memorandums
Assorted documents (1 folder)

Box 4
Assorted documents (2 folders)
Seminar on school curricula (1963)
Supreme Court -plaintiffs
Teaching the Principles of the Bill of Rights
Treasurer reports
Central New York Chapter (July, 1971 – June, 1972)
Civil Liberties
Civil Liberties in New York

Reference files:
Commonwealth Drive
A Contemporary Report
How Classroom Desegregation Will Work
Inhaling, Ingesting, Imbibing, Injecting, Inserting, Incising, etc
The Law Criminal Justice
No Constitutional Amendment
On the Tactics of Police – Prosecution
Reports by Committee Chairpeople
Two Sides to Every Coin
The Stakes Grow Higher
Tension, Change and Liberty
The Use and Misuse of Arrest Records
Newspaper clippings

Box 5
Buttons:
I’m Nixon Enemy #248,617,309
Nixon Knew!
De-elect the President