New York Bureau of Legal Advice Records
Abstract
Holdings in Tamiment Library: about half the records of the New York Bureau of Legal Advice consist of case histories pertaining to selective service exemption, draft evasion, conscientious objector status, military imprisonment, military discharge, desertion, amnesty, civil liberties and deportations. One third of the collection consists of office files, administrative reports and correspondence, including extensive fundraising correspondence. The remainder of the collection is made up of press releases and newspaper clippings. Correspondents include Mary Beard, Sarah N. Cleghorn, Bina Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Agnes Smedley, Louis Untermeyer, Thorsten Veblen, H.L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, Judah L. Magnes, and Stephen Wise.
Dates
- Creation: 1917-1919
Creator
- Beard, Mary Ritter, 1876-1958 (Correspondent, Person)
- Cleghorn, Sarah Norcliffe, 1876-1959 (Correspondent, Person)
- Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley (Correspondent, Person)
- Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 (Correspondent, Person)
- Magnes, Judah Leon, 1877-1948 (Correspondent, Person)
- Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 (Correspondent, Person)
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 (Correspondent, Person)
- Smedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 (Correspondent, Person)
- Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977 (Correspondent, Person)
- Veblen, Thorstein, 1857-1929 (Correspondent, Person)
- Wise, Stephen Samuel, 1874-1949 (Correspondent, Person)
- Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 (Correspondent, Person)
Biographical / Historical
First known as the New York Bureau of Legal First Aid; operated from April 6, 1917 to the autumn of 1919 when its assets were turned over to the People's Freedom Union; assisted men who were subject to the draft process, defended the legal rights of conscientious objectors, many of whom were socialists and foreign-born aliens from combatant nations; fought against the deportation of members of the International Workers of the World; predated the similar National Civil Liberties Bureau; confined its activities to New York conscientious objection cases.
Extent
5.42 Linear Feet (5.42 linear ft.)
Language
English
Arrangement
Organized into six series: Series I. Office files; Series II. Correspondence files; Series III. Case files (aliens, deportations, special individuals); Series IV. Case files (conscientious objectors); Series V. Case files (draft boards, aliens, dependents); Series VI. Press releases and newspaper clippings.
General Note
Microfilm reproduction of originals in: Tamiment Library, New York University, New York, NY.
General Note
Printed on microfilm container: Robert F. Wagner Archives.
Reproduction Note
Type of reproduction--Microfilm.; Place of reproduction--New York, NY :; Agency responsible for reproduction--Tamiment Library: Date of reproduction--[1990?]. Physical description of reproduction--10 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
General
View finding aid: https://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/CDGA.M-R/nybla.htm
Subject
- Flynn, Bina (Person)
- New York Bureau of Legal Advice (Organization)
- Tamiment Library (Organization)
- Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives (Organization)
- New York Bureau of Legal Advice (Organization)
- New York Bureau of Legal First Aid (Organization)
Topical
- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Draft resisters -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Legal aid -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources
- Political prisoners -- United States -- History -- Sources
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States -- Sources
- Description rules
- Archives, Personal Papers, And Manuscripts (Appm)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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