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Title: Local CIVIL Liberties Committees Reports 1939-40. Supplement to in the Shadow of War. The Story of CIVIL Liberty 1939-40
Description: New York, American Civil Liberties Union, Publisher, 1940. Wraps. Yellow printed wraps. 44 pp. A report of various civil liberty committees around the country, some associated with the ACLU and others not, documenting their efforts, successes and failures on the local level. This includes reports from New York City on picketing and labor; efforts in Chicago against police brutality, racial discrimination (including working within African-American communities) and movie censorship; reports from Northern California and San Francisco on police lawlessness, communism; work regarding vigilantism in Southern California; reports of poor treatment of African-Americans and transients in New Orleans; reports from Oregon, Cleveland, St. Louis and other areas. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) was founded in 1920, primarily to protect war protesters, but soon expanded to cover other areas of free speech, including workers' rights and labor, as well as many unpopular cases regarding communism. GOOD condition. Area of offsetting along the lower front cover. Heavy offsetting to the lower rear cover, with a few areas of moderate staining and soiling also to the rear. General fading and minor soiling to the front wrap. Side staples rusted. Interior clean and solid. Good .

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