American Civil Liberties Union

The American Civil Liberties Union was founded in 1920 "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States" according to their website. Letters, memoranda, also some printed items, including ACLU publication "The Free and the Brave: a Letter to the House Un­-American Activities Committee on the Mundt­Nixon Bill" by Zechariah Chafee, Jr. Correspondence of Wood with ACLU, but mostly general letters from ACLU to members giving positions of ACLU (Wood listed on letterhead as member of National Committee); letter of Nov. 19, 1952 from B. W. Huebsch to Wood concerning membership renewal acknowledges Wood as a founding member.