Addition to the Records of the American Civil Liberties of Virginia MSS 85-2a

Extent:

20 Cubic Feet 43 archival boxes, plus 4 cartons with unprocessed files

Scope and content:

This addition to the Papers of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia came to the University of Virginia Law Library in 1986. It was sorted and processed following the guidelines established for the first accession (Mss 85-2) of the collection.

These papers fall into three divisions, administrative/topical, case, and project files, and are arranged alphabetically within each. They cover the years 1970-1985, although the predominant dates are the late 70s. In addition to general organization correspondence, the administrative files cover topics such as abortion, Legal Services Corporation, and voting rights, among many others. Among the numerous case files are those for Crockett v. Sorenson challenging the constitutionality of religious education classes in public schools; Miles v. City of Portsmouth concerning housing discrimination; and the Taxi Zum Klo cases involving obscenity. The projects documented in these papers concerned health care, nutrition, migrant workers, and prisons.

A relatively small percentage of these files are closed to research in order to protect lawyer/client confidentiality.

Acquisition information:

These files were transferred to the Law Library by Chan Kendrick in 1986.

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