Since 1965, Meiklejohn Institute has collected unique and invaluable materials from many organizations and individuals. The collections listed below vary in size and comprehensive character. They are used continually by scholars, activists, lawyers, etc.
Bancroft Library Collection
In 2007, MCLI donated much of its archival library to the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, where the collection can be better preserved and curated. They can be viewed at the online Bancroft Archival Collections. The following is a sampling of what you will find in the collection.
View archives online here: Bancroft Archival Collections
Attorneys
Correspondence, briefs, files, oral history snippets, notes of: Osmond K. Fraenkel, Carol Weiss King, Joseph Forer, Samuel Neuburger, David Freedman, Justine Wise Polier, Jeremiah Gutman, Martin Popper, Abraham Isserman, Dennis Roberts, Robert J. Silberstein, Justice Raymond Peters, George W. Crockett, Jr..
Cases
Briefs, pleadings, clippings, unreported opinions, indices to testimony in:
- Bakke/DeFunis (on affirmative action in graduate schools)
- Harry Bridges (deportation)
- Caryl Chessman (capital punishment)
- Chicago 8 (trial/appeal)
- Angela Davis
- Dennis (Smith Act) — George W. Crockett, Jr. files
- Free Speech Movement (California v. Savio)
- William Heikkila (deportation)
- House UnAmerican Activities Committee (contempt cases)
- Pentagon Papers (Ellsberg, Russo)
- Rosenberg/Sobell
- Cases reported in “Civil Liberties Docket” (1955-1969), “Human Rights Docket” (1979), “Human Rights and Peace Law Docket” (1983-1995)
Current MCLI Collection
First Amendment
Papers of Alexander Meiklejohn, Bernhard Stern.
Labor and Related Materials
Eugene V. Debs: notes of Ray Ginger, ILWU Civil Liberties Collection (1953-1965), ILWU Collection on HUAC, Labor Surveillance Collection (labor spies 1930′s: unique), Radical Elders Oral History Project, Ray Thompson papers.
Movements: Cases and Extensive Materials
Academic Freedom (1940, 1955-1979), International Law (Betty Elder Coll.), Civil Rights Movement (1955-1969), Nuclear Free Zones (1987 – ), Cold War (1947-1950), Southern Africa (1988-1989), Draft and Military Law (1955-1969), Vietnam War (John H.E. Fried Coll.)
National Lawyers Guild Collection
National Office Files, 1936-1976/Since 1976
National Leaders Files: Henry di Suvero, Ann Fagan Ginger, Robert W. Kenny, Maurice Sugar, Doris Brin Walker, Ruben Tepper
Grand Jury Defence Office Electronic Surveillance Project
NLG Conventions: Tapes and Materials since 1976
NLG Historical Photographs Collection
NLG Law Reviews 1937-1979/Since 1979
Organizational Archives
American Association of Jurists (1974 – ), American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born (national/N. Calif.), Civil Rights Congress, Film Photo League (1930′s Chicago), International Association of Democratic Lawyers,International Juridical Association Bulletin, Prison Law Project (Stender), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Berkeley City Commission on Peace & Justice (1987- )
