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Roger Nash Baldwin Papers, 1885-1981 (bulk 1911-1981): Finding Aid
MC005

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Summary Information
- Creator:
- Baldwin, Roger Nash, 1884-1981.
- Title and dates:
- Roger Nash Baldwin Papers, 1885-1981 (bulk 1911-1981)
- Abstract:
- The Roger Nash Baldwin Papers document the life and career of Roger Baldwin (1884-1981), a prominent and active American civil libertarian for almost all of his prodigiously long life. Baldwin is remembered first and foremost as a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union. Many of the papers in this collection document his involvement with the conscientious objection movement that served as the forerunner to the ACLU and with the Union itself. He served as both its executive director from its foundation in 1920 to his retirement in 1950 and as an advisor from that date until his death in 1981. However, Baldwin cast his net much wider than just the ACLU. During the 1920s and 1930s, he was involved with various left-wing political organizations, including the Industrial Workers of the World. Following the end of World War II, he served as an advisor to the U.S. Army and the United Nations in Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea, guiding the establishment of democracy in those countries, and he was for many years chair of the International League for the Rights of Man. He spoke and wrote widely, most often on issues of civil liberties and human rights, and also taught periodically throughout his life. The papers, which include correspondence, memos, writings, notes, and photographs, document all aspects of his public life, as well as some portion of his personal life.
- Size:
- 14.25 linear feet (25 archival boxes, 5 boxes of photographs, and 2 oversize boxes)
- Call number:
- MC005
- Location:
- Princeton University Library. Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections.
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library.
Public Policy Papers.
Princeton, New Jersey 08544 USA - Language(s) of material:
- English.
Biography of Roger Nash Baldwin
Roger Nash Baldwin was born in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, on January 21, 1884 into a prominent Boston family. His parents were Frank Fenno Baldwin and Lucy Cushing (Nash) Baldwin, and he was the first of six children, three boys and three girls. His parents were Unitarians with strong liberal connections; W. E. B. Dubois was a Baldwin family friend and a frequent guest at the house. Baldwin's upbringing in this atmosphere in Wellesley, where he attended public school, instilled in him a life-long sympathy for the underdog. He attended Harvard, graduating in 1905 with an A.B. and an A.M. (received after a summer course in sociology).
On the advice of his father's friend and lawyer, Louis D. Brandeis, he decided to become a social worker. From 1906 to 1917 he lived and worked in St. Louis, determined to make his own way rather than depend on the family connections that would have helped him in Boston. While there he worked in the neighborhood settlements, served as chief officer of the St. Louis Juvenile Court and voluntary secretary of the National Probation Association, and founded the sociology department at Washington University, where he taught from 1906 to 1910. While in St. Louis he wrote (with Bernard Flexner) Juvenile Courts and Probation, which remained a standard in the field for many years. Ironically, in the 1960s the ACLU challenged the standards promulgated in the book, citing the need to guarantee juveniles due process.
In St. Louis Baldwin became attracted to the radical political and social movements that greatly affected his politics until the 1930s. He was a close friend of the anarchist Emma Goldman and he moved in left-wing circles. During the 1920s he joined the I.W.W., and in 1927 he visited the Soviet Union, producing from his trip a book entitled Liberty Under the Soviets, published in 1928. He broke with the Communists and other radicals only in 1939, after having been horrified by the Nazi-Soviet Pact.
Baldwin left St. Louis in 1917, when the United States entered World War I, in order to become involved with the pacifist movement. He was a member of the American Union Against Militarism (AUAM), an organization which lobbied first against U.S. entrance into the war and later for a negotiated peace. He also worked with the National Civil Liberties Bureau (NCLB), an arm of the AUAM founded to defend conscientious objectors but which quickly broadened its scope to include in its mission defense of the freedoms of speech, press, and conscience. In 1918 Baldwin was called up for military service, but as a conscientious objector he refused to go. His arrest, trial, and conviction made headlines, and he spent a year in jail, calling it “my vacation on the government.”
After his release, Baldwin spent four months in the Midwest working as an industrial laborer in several factories, but he was soon persuaded by his war-time NCLB colleagues to return to New York.
The end of the war had not meant an end to civil liberties violations, which were being fanned by the post-war “Red Scare,” and in 1920 the NCLB was transformed into the American Civil Liberties Union. Baldwin became its executive director.
Baldwin remained in this position until 1950. As executive director, he was intimately associated with two of the biggest cases with which the ACLU was involved in these years, the Scopes trial and the Sacco-Vanzetti case. In 1950 Baldwin resigned as executive director to become the ACLU's international adviser and to devote himself more fully to his work with the International League for the Rights of Man, where he served as chair for fifteen years. In that position he traveled extensively; his ports of call included the Middle East, Cuba, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Peru, Nigeria, many Western European countries, Poland, and the Soviet Union.
Baldwin became involved with international affairs in 1947, when the War Department invited him to go to Japan and South Korea to assist in developing civil liberties agencies in the infant democracies. He founded the Japan Civil Liberties Union, and the Japanese government awarded him the Order of the Rising Sun in recognition of his service to Japanese democracy. In 1948 General Lucius Clay invited Baldwin to Germany and Austria to perform a similar service in those two countries; he returned to Germany several times in subsequent years.
Baldwin was also extremely active in the study and protection of civil liberties in Puerto Rico, setting up a commission to deal with the issue in the 1960s. A close friend of Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Muñoz Marín, Baldwin traveled to Puerto Rico frequently in his later years. He often taught a seminar on constitutional rights at the University of Puerto Rico law school.
Baldwin was connected to various educational institutions throughout his life. In addition to his stint at Washington University and his recurrent seminar course at the University of Puerto Rico, he taught several courses at the New School for Social Research in New York. He served for many years on the Overseers' Visiting Committee to the Harvard Economics Department. He also received numerous honorary degrees, including ones from Brandeis, Columbia, Haverford, Washington University, and Yale. His other honors included the Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded in 1981.
Baldwin remained active right until the end of his long life; in a series of memoranda on old age, he attributed his longevity to his constant activity. He was an avid outdoorsman who loved canoeing and bird-watching. He was a director and vice-president of the National Audubon Society and donated some of his land in New Jersey to the Audubon Society as a bird sanctuary. While in St. Louis, Baldwin adopted two boys who had come to the attention of the Juvenile Court, Oral James and Otto Stolz. James followed his adoptive father to prison as a conscientious objector during World War I, while Stolz served in the army in France. Stolz committed suicide in 1930.
After being released from prison in 1919, Baldwin married Madeleine Zabriskie Doty, a journalist and feminist who never took Baldwin's name. They divorced in 1936, although they had not lived together for over a decade, and in 1936 Baldwin married Evelyn Preston. Evie had been married before and had two small boys, Carl and Roger, who chose to take Baldwin's name long before their mother, a feminist, did. Roger and Evie had one daughter, Helen. Evie died in 1962 at the age of 64 from cancer. Helen died in 1979 at the age of 41 from cancer. Baldwin himself died of heart failure on August 26, 1981, at the age of 97.
Description
The Baldwin Papers consist mainly of typescript and manuscript documents, including personal correspondence, business correspondence, memoranda, published and typescript articles, manuscripts and notes for speeches, notes from travels, and printed material. There are also a considerable number of photographs and an album presented to Baldwin at the Thirtieth Anniversary of the ACLU, on February 22, 1950. The vast majority of the documents are in English, but there is also material in Spanish, German, and French, much but not all of which is translated.
While there are materials relating to all eras of Baldwin's life, from his childhood in Wellesley, Massachusetts to his death in 1981, some eras are more fully documented than others. The collection contains no documents from his undergraduate years at Harvard. Much of the material relating to Baldwin's term as executive director of the ACLU (1920-1950) is located in the ACLU Archives. The papers in this collection relating directly to the ACLU date almost exclusively from 1950. The only exceptions are papers relating to the Scopes trial, which Baldwin managed, and the Sacco-Vanzetti case, which are relatively well-represented here. There are also surprisingly few documents relating to Baldwin's involvement with the International League for the Rights of Man.
On the other hand, the materials relating to Baldwin's year in prison, his travels to the Soviet Union, Japan, Korea, and Germany, his interest in Puerto Rico, and his years in St. Louis are relatively rich. Baldwin's FBI file, although censored, sheds light on his involvement in radical politics. Also of interest are the memoranda Baldwin wrote throughout his later years about people he had known, experiences he had, and beliefs he had held. The photographs include many formal portraits of
Baldwin, his first baby picture to several taken while he was in his nineties, snapshots of dinners held in his honor, a few family pictures, pictures taken during his trips to Japan, Korea, and Germany, and various other photographs of his public life.
An unusual feature of this collection is that Baldwin himself has included specifically for the researcher occasional explanations of who people were, what his connection with them was, or why he saved something. Baldwin also wrote a series of memoranda about his life, people he knew, and his opinions and attitudes. These autobiographical addenda to the collection infuse the collection with an unusually immediate sense of Baldwin's presence.
Arrangement
Organized into the following series:
- Series 1, Correspondence, 1897-1981
- Series 2, Subject Files, 1911-1981
- Series 3, Writings and Speeches, 1912-1978
- Series 4, Miscellaneous, 1922-1981
- Series 5, Photographs, 1885?-1981
- Series 6, Tribute Album, 1950
Access and Use
Access
Collection is open for research use.
Restrictions on Use and Copyright Information
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Curator of the Public Policy Papers. Researchers are responsible for determining any copyright questions.
Acquisition and Appraisal
Provenance and Acquisition
The Baldwin Papers were donated to Princeton University by Roger Baldwin himself. The library received the first shipment of papers in 1969. Other shipments have been received periodically since then from both Baldwin and his step-son Carl Baldwin. In 1992 Samuel Walker donated to Princeton Roger Baldwin's FBI files, which he obtained under the Freedom of Information Act while he was researching his book In Defense of American Civil Liberties: A History of the ACLU.
Processing and Other Information
Processing Information
This collection was processed by Olivia Kew in 1995. Finding aid written by Olivia Kew in 1995.
Descriptive Rules Used
Finding aid content adheres to that prescribed by Describing Archives: A Content Standard.
Encoding
Machine-readable finding aid encoded in EAD 2002 by Techbooks and Cristela García-Spitz on September 20, 2006.
Finding aid written in English.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Roger Nash Baldwin Papers, Box and Folder Number; Public Policy Papers, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Subject Headings
These papers have been indexed in the Princeton University Library online catalog using the following terms. Those seeking related materials should search under these terms.
- Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 -- Correspondence.
- Scopes, John Thomas, 1900-1970 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
- American Civil Liberties Union.
- International League for the Rights of Man.
- Marshall Civil Liberties Trust Fund.
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
- Civil rights -- Puerto Rico -- 20th century.
- Civil rights -- United States -- 20th century.
- Communism -- Soviet Union.
- Communism -- United States.
- Government consultants -- United States -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
- Sacco-Vanzetti Trial, Dedham, Mass., 1921.
- World war, 1914-1918 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States.
- Puerto Rico -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
- Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century.
- Audio tapes.
- Correspondence.
- Photographs.
- Speeches.
Browse other finding aids related to the following terms:
- American history/20th century
- American history/Gilded Age, Populism, Progressivism
- American politics and government
- Legal history
- World War I
Contents List
Series 1, Correspondence, 1897-1981
Series Description
Series 1, Correspondence (1897-1981) consists mainly of personal and business correspondence. Some of the documents are not letters per se, but they relate to correspondence Baldwin had and for this reason have been included in the correspondence series rather than with the subject files. This series gives a fairly complete picture of the diversity of Baldwin's interests, for his correspondence touched on all areas of his life. However, Baldwin had few long-term correspondents, perhaps detracting somewhat from the richness of the materials in this series.
One of the long-term correspondences Baldwin did maintain was with Charlotte Ryman, a woman who acted as a godmother figure for him during his teenage years and beyond. His first letters to her represent the earliest written papers of the collection, dating from 1897. Also from this era are letters from Baldwin's mother, Lucy Cushing Nash Baldwin. Baldwin corresponded relatively frequently throughout the 'teens and early twenties with Emma Goldman, the anarchist who greatly affected his political thinking. Other notable correspondences, though not as substantive, were with Eleanor Roosevelt, Upton Sinclair, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Margaret Sanger. Other important names are also included in this series – Mahatma Gandhi, Edward R. Murrow, John Kenneth Galbraith, Felix Frankfurter, Douglas MacArthur, John F. Kennedy – but Baldwin's correspondence with these people was slight. Unfortunately, many of the more important people in Baldwin's life, including Norman Thomas, John Haynes Holmes, Ernest Angell, and Baldwin's family, are underrepresented in this series.
More substantial are official and subject-related correspondence. Documents relating to Baldwin's time in St. Louis, many of which deal with his years at the Juvenile Court and the book he wrote with Bernard Flexner about Juvenile Court procedures, are located in this series. All the materials from his year in prison are also included here. Other significant correspondences include papers relating to the debate over civil rights in Okinawa and the Ryukus Islands, to Puerto Rico, to the ACLU after Baldwin's retirement as executive director, to Baldwin's term as an Overseer of the Harvard Economics Department, and to the Robert Marshall Civil Liberties Trust, of which Baldwin was a trustee. Correspondence also exists from many of the organizations with which Baldwin had some sort of involvement, such as the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Inter-American Association for Democracy and Freedom, the American League for Peace and Democracy, Americans for Democratic Action, the National Conference of Social Welfare, and various organizations relating to Spanish democracy and refugees.
Of unexpected interest may be the “Academic Requests” files, which include Baldwin's responses to queries from academics about a wide range of topics, including the Scopes trial, pacifism, and the ACLU. These, like the “Miscellaneous” and “ACLU” files are organized chronologically by year, although in general no attempt has been made to organize the papers strictly in chronological order. Correspondences illuminating various views which Baldwin held are filed under the various subject headings, including “Gay Rights,” “America,” and “Israel-Palestine,” to name a few. Occasionally, folders are grouped into subseries, which have then been filed alphabetically according to the subseries heading. The subseries in this series are Roger N. Baldwin, Birds, Communism, Harvard, India, Juvenile Court Matters, Political Prisoners, Prison, Puerto Rico, St. Louis Correspondence, State Conference of Charities and Corrections, and World Tour.
Miscellaneous, 1925-1981
Box 1, Folder 1-5 Academic Requests, 1953-1981
Box 1, Folder 6-9 Act for Peace, 1959
Box 1, Folder 10 Addams, Jane, 1974
Box 1, Folder 11 Addams, Jane Hall of Fame, 1967-1968
Box 1, Folder 12 Adelphi University, 1968
Box 1, Folder 13 Adenauer, Konrad, 1949
Box 1, Folder 14 Affidavits & Statements, 1950-1952
Box 1, Folder 15 Allen, William H., 1915
Box 1, Folder 16 Allison, Brent, 1920
Box 1, Folder 17 America, 1954-1968
Box 1, Folder 18 American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 1951
Box 1, Folder 19 American Christian Palestine Committee, 1952-1955
Box 1, Folder 20 ACLU, 1952-1981
Box 2, Folder 1-9 ACLU - 50th Anniversary, 1976
Box 2, Folder 10 ACLU Foundation, 1972
Box 2, Folder 11 American Emergency Committee for Tibetan Refugees, 1964-1977
Box 2, Folder 12 American Friends of Ichud, 1957-1958
Box 2, Folder 13 American Fund for Public Service, 1941
Box 2, Folder 14 American Guild for German Cultural Freedom, 1937
Box 2, Folder 15 American Jewish Committee/ American Liberties Medallion, 1973-1974
Box 2, Folder 16 American League for Peace and Democracy, 1939
Box 3, Folder 1 American League to Abolish Capital Punishment, 1938
Box 3, Folder 2 American Political Science Association Caucasus, 1968
Box 3, Folder 3 American Proportional Representation League, 1919
Box 3, Folder 4 American Veterans' Committee, 1950
Box 3, Folder 5 American Whig-Cliosophic Society, 1979
Box 3, Folder 6 Americans for Democratic Action, 1955-1962
Box 3, Folder 7 Angell, Ernest, 1959-1960
Box 3, Folder 8 Bailey, Forrest (Resignation), 1926-1932
Box 3, Folder 9 Baker, Josephine, 1962-1977
Box 3, Folder 10 Balabanoff, Angelica, 1927
Box 3, Folder 11 Baldwin, Carl, 1974
Box 3, Folder 12 Baldwin, Dick, 1953
Box 3, Folder 13 Baldwin, Evelyn Preston, 1938-1978
Box 3, Folder 14 Baldwin, F.F., 1934-1939
Box 3, Folder 15 Baldwin, Lucy Cushing Nash, 1927-1934
Box 3, Folder 16 Baldwin Family, 1979
Box 3, Folder 17 Baldwin, Roger N.: Autobiography, 1958-1959
Box 3, Folder 18 Baldwin, Roger N.: Greetings, Thank You's, 1938-1980
Box 3, Folder 19 Baldwin, Roger N.: Greetings, 80th Birthday, Miscellaneous, 1964
Box 3, Folder 20 Baldwin, Roger N.: Greetings, 80th Birthday, Detroit, MI Dinner, 1964/05/09
Box 3, Folder 21 Baldwin, Roger N.: Greetings, 80th Birthday, Bernstein celebration, 1964/05/15
Box 3, Folder 22 Baldwin, Roger N.: Greetings, 85th Birthday, International Rights of Man Dinner, 1968/12/06
Box 3, Folder 23 Baldwin, Roger N.: Greetings, 86th Birthday, 1970
Box 3, Folder 24 Baldwin, Roger N.: Greetings, 90th Birthday, 1974
Box 3, Folder 25 Baldwin, Roger N.: Greetings, 91st Birthday, 1975
Box 4, Folder 1 Baldwin, Roger N.: Greetings, 92nd Birthday (from grandchildren), 1976
Box 4, Folder 2 Baldwin, Roger N.: Greetings, 94th Birthday (includes Jimmy Carter), 1979
Box 4, Folder 3 Baldwin, Roger N.: Greetings, 95th Birthday, 1978-1979
Box 4, Folder 4 Baldwin, Roger N.: Greetings, 97th Birthday/60th Anniversary of ACLU, 1980-1981
Box 4, Folder 5 Baldwin, Roger N.: Letters of Tribute at Resignation from ACLU, 1949-1950
Box 4, Folder 6 Roger N. Baldwin: Personal Papers, 1954-1970
Box 4, Folder 7 Bellair, Harry, 1919
Box 4, Folder 8 Benitez, Jaime, 1963
Box 4, Folder 9 Benton, William, 1947
Box 4, Folder 10 Bergendall, Tom, 1978
Box 4, Folder 11 Berkman, Alexander, 1916-1974
Box 4, Folder 12 Betancourt, Romulo, 1963-1964
Box 4, Folder 13 Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1945-1955
Box 4, Folder 14 Biddle, Francis, 1952-1969
Box 4, Folder 15 Birds: Miscellaneous, 1944-1978
Box 4, Folder 16 Birds: Audubon Society, 1944-1964
Box 4, Folder 17 Birds: Audubon Society Emergency Conservation Committee, 1931-1933
Box 4, Folder 18 Birds: Baldwin Sanctuary, 1962-1964
Box 4, Folder 19 B'nai B'rith, 1952-1955
Box 4, Folder 20 Bowles, Chester, 1948-1960
Box 4, Folder 21 British Visas, 1927-1938
Box 4, Folder 22 Brandeis University, 1952-1969
Box 4, Folder 23 Brazier, Richard, 1964
Box 4, Folder 24 Brooks, John Graham, 1933
Box 4, Folder 25 Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 1950
Box 4, Folder 26 Brown, Harold Z., 1926-1930
Box 4, Folder 27 Brown, William, 1964
Box 4, Folder 28 Buck, Pearl, 1964
Box 4, Folder 29 Bulkey, Mary E., 1923-1970
Box 4, Folder 30 Bundy, William P., 1964
Box 4, Folder 31 Cabot, Richard C., 1922
Box 5, Folder 1 California Trip, 1956
Box 5, Folder 2 Caribbean Conservation, 1968-1974
Box 5, Folder 3-4 Caribbean Tour, 1954
Box 5, Folder 5 Casals, Pablo, 1966-1973
Box 5, Folder 6 Chaplin, Ralph, Edith, Ivan, 1925-1967
Box 5, Folder 7 Citizens' Council for a Democratic Germany, 1951
Box 5, Folder 8 Citizens' League for America and the Allies, 1916
Box 5, Folder 9 Children's Code, 1914
Box 5, Folder 10 Civil Rights Defense Committee, 1948
Box 5, Folder 11 Clark, Grenville, 1967-1981
Box 5, Folder 12 Club Organization, 1911
Box 5, Folder 13 Coe, George, 1951
Box 5, Folder 14 Coffin, William, 1966
Box 5, Folder 15 College of the Virgin Islands, 1967-1968
Box 5, Folder 16 Columbia Lecture Bureau, 1949-1950
Box 5, Folder 17 Columbia University Oral History, 1971
Box 5, Folder 18 Columbus Citizen, 1950
Box 5, Folder 19 Committee for a Fair Trial for Draja Mihailovich, 1946
Box 5, Folder 20 Commission for International Due Process of Law, 1971
Box 5, Folder 21 Committee of 100 Against Communist Inhumanity, 1953
Box 5, Folder 22 Committee on Criminal Courts of the Charity Organization Society, 1915
Box 5, Folder 23 Communism: Miscellaneous, 1934-1964
Box 5, Folder 24 Communism: American Medicine & Political Scene, 1949
Box 5, Folder 25 Communism: New Milford CT Controversy, 1948
Box 5, Folder 26 Congratulatory/Sympathetic Letters, 1934-1971
Box 5, Folder 27 Conscientious Objection, 1936-1970
Box 5, Folder 28 Congress on Racial Equality, 1964-1966
Box 5, Folder 29 Cox, Marshall, 1972
Box 5, Folder 30 Daniel, Jonathan, 1951
Box 5, Folder 31 Davis, Philip, 1915
Box 5, Folder 32 Debs, Eugene, 1964-1965
Box 5, Folder 33 Dell Brook (Family Farm), 1947-1980
Box 5, Folder 34 Democracy, 1952
Box 5, Folder 35 “Democratic Germany” Organizations, 1945-1951
Box 5, Folder 36 Dennis, Eugene (Daily Worker), 1961
Box 5, Folder 37 Dennis, Lawrence, 1953
Box 5, Folder 38 Denver Post, 1950
Box 5, Folder 39 Department of Justice, 1918
Box 5, Folder 40 Department of State, 1918
Box 5, Folder 41 deSchweinitz, Dorothea, 1968-1980
Box 5, Folder 42 DeSilver, Albert & Margaret, 1924-1951
Box 5, Folder 43 Dewey, Thomas E., 1945
Box 5, Folder 44 Dissenters, The (Organization), 1962-1966
Box 5, Folder 45 Distinguished New Yorker Medal, 1967
Box 5, Folder 46 Dominican Republic, 1967
Box 5, Folder 47 Doty, Madeleine Zabriskie, 1925-1978
Box 6, Folder 1 DuBois, W. E. B., 1944
Box 6, Folder 2 Duran, Gustavo, 1969
Box 6, Folder 3 Eastman, Crystal, 1918
Box 6, Folder 4 Eastman, Max, 1969-1972
Box 6, Folder 5 Edwards, Forest, 1915
Box 6, Folder 6 Eliot, Thomas D., 1911-1915
Box 6, Folder 7 Encampment for Citizenship, 1966
Box 6, Folder 8 Environment and Civil Rights, 1969
Box 6, Folder 9 Environmental Conference, 1972
Box 6, Folder 10 Ernst, Morris, 1951-1968
Box 6, Folder 11 Ethical Culture Society, 1949-1969
Box 6, Folder 12 European Peace, 1946-1951
Box 6, Folder 13 European Tour, 1950
Box 6, Folder 14 Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1964-1965
Box 6, Folder 15 Fargo-Moorhead Open Forum, 1954
Box 6, Folder 16 Farnum, Fred, 1922-1979
Box 6, Folder 17 Federal Union (of Democracies), 1939-1940
Box 6, Folder 18 Felicani, Aldino, 1948-1967
Box 6, Folder 19 Fighting Group Against Inhumanity, 1951
Box 6, Folder 20 Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1945
Box 6, Folder 21 Fisk University, 1949
Box 6, Folder 22 Flax, Dorothy Ellin, 1960
Box 6, Folder 23 Florina Lasker Award of NYCLU, 1957
Box 6, Folder 24 Florina Lasker Fellows Program, 1958-1959
Box 6, Folder 25 Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley Reinstatement, 1972-1976
Box 6, Folder 26 Ford Hall Forum, 1971
Box 6, Folder 27 Frankfurter, Felix, 1936
Box 6, Folder 28 Franklin Lecture Series, 1961
Box 6, Folder 29 Freeman, Joseph, 1931-1938
Box 6, Folder 30 Fry, Varian, 1951
Box 6, Folder 31 Fullerton, Hugh, 1930
Box 6, Folder 32 Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1968
Box 6, Folder 33 Gartz, Cran E., 1922-1924
Box 6, Folder 34 Gay Rights, 1950
Box 6, Folder 35 Gellhorn, Edna, 1967-1970
Box 6, Folder 36 Geneva Conference for World Peace Through Law, 1967
Box 6, Folder 37 Genocide Convention, 1970-1971
Box 6, Folder 38 George Washington Carver National Monument, 1953
Box 6, Folder 39 Georgetown University, 1980
Box 6, Folder 40 Germany, 1950
Box 6, Folder 41 Germany, 1950
Box 6, Folder 42 Giberti, Louis, 1940-1942
Box 6, Folder 43 Goldman, Albert, 1948
Box 6, Folder 44 Goldman, Emma, 1909-1940, 1968-1980
Box 7, Folder 1 Gollancz, Sir Victor and Lady, 1967
Box 7, Folder 2 Greek War Relief Association, 1940-1941
Box 7, Folder 3 Greenbaum, Edward S., 1957
Box 7, Folder 4 Grose, Laurence Rich, 1960-1972
Box 7, Folder 5 Harris, Professor W. F., 1916
Box 7, Folder 6 Harvard: Miscellaneous, 1933-1978
Box 7, Folder 7 Harvard: Class of 1905, 1954-1973
Box 7, Folder 8 Harvard: Economics Dept. Overseers' Committee, 1937-1950
Box 7, Folder 9-11 Haskell, Natalie, 1963-1972
Box 7, Folder 12 Haverford College, 1976
Box 7, Folder 13 Hays, Arthur Garfield, 1881-1954
Box 7, Folder 14 Haywood, William D., 1962-1963
Box 7, Folder 15 Heidenberger, Peter, 1951-1972
Box 7, Folder 16 Hennacy, Ammon, 1944-1970
Box 7, Folder 17 Holmes, John Hayes, 1949-1966
Box 7, Folder 18 Hoover, J. Edgar, 1948
Box 7, Folder 19 Hopkins Charitable Fund, 1956-1959
Box 7, Folder 20 Huebsch, Ben, 1964
Box 7, Folder 21 Huntley, James, 1955
Box 7, Folder 22 India: Miscellaneous, 1931-1972
Box 7, Folder 23 India: Friends of Freedom for India, 1921
Box 7, Folder 24 India: Gandhi, Mahatma, 1964-1969
Box 7, Folder 25 India: Gandhi Foundation, 1949
Box 7, Folder 26 India: Ghose, Shalian, 1937
Box 7, Folder 27 India: Gregg, Richard, 1931
Box 7, Folder 28 India: India League of America, 1956
Box 7, Folder 29 India: Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1939-1967
Box 7, Folder 30 India: Raghuram, Neal, 1966
Box 7, Folder 31 India: Rai, Lajpat, 1969
Box 7, Folder 32 Inter-American Conference for Democracy & Freedom, 1950
Box 7, Folder 33 Intercollegiate Socialist Society, 1917
Box 7, Folder 34 International Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1954-1966
Box 8, Folder 1 International League Against Imperialism, 1927-1928
Box 8, Folder 2 International League Against Imperialism, 1928-1929
Box 8, Folder 3 International League for the Rights of Man (& Inter-American Association, American Fund for Czechoslovak Refugees), 1954-1969
Box 8, Folder 4 International Relations/International Issues, 1961-1966
Box 8, Folder 5 Israel/Palestine, 1947-1971
Box 8, Folder 6 Jackson, Gardner, 1928-1929
Box 8, Folder 7 James, William Oral, 1918
Box 8, Folder 8 Japan, 1949-1952
Box 8, Folder 9 Japan Civil Liberties Union, 1971
Box 8, Folder 10 Japan & Korea, 1947
Box 8, Folder 11 Japanese-American Issues, 1964-1968
Box 8, Folder 12 Jewish Issues, 1945-1950
Box 8, Folder 13 Jones, Mother, 1929-1930
Box 8, Folder 14 Juvenile Court Matters: Miscellaneous, 1967-1978
Box 8, Folder 15 Juvenile Court Matters: American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, 1911
Box 8, Folder 16 Juvenile Court Matters: Juvenile Civil Rights, 1957
Box 8, Folder 17 Juvenile Court Matters: Juvenile Courts and Probation (book materials), 1912-1913
Box 8, Folder 18 Juvenile Court Matters: Missouri Juvenile Court Laws, 1909-1914
Box 9, Folder 1 Juvenile Court Matters: Missouri State Legislation on Supervision of Private Charities, 1913
Box 9, Folder 2 Juvenile Court Matters: National Committee for Standardizing Children's Laws, 1915-1916
Box 9, Folder 3 Juvenile Court Matters: National Probation Association (Bernard Flexner), 1914-1915
Box 9, Folder 4 Juvenile Court Matters: Probation, 1919-1922
Box 9, Folder 5 Juvenile Court Matters: St. Louis Children's Commission, 1910
Box 9, Folder 6 Kades, Charles, 1958-1961
Box 9, Folder 7 Kasama, Frank A., 1954
Box 9, Folder 8 Kennedy, John F., 1960
Box 9, Folder 9 Kenyon, Dorothy, 1972
Box 9, Folder 10 Kim, Andrew, 1948-1952
Box 9, Folder 11 Kipp, Mrs. Albert, 1935
Box 9, Folder 12 Kizer, Benjamin H., 1969
Box 9, Folder 13 Korea, 1950-1957
Box 9, Folder 14 Kropotkin, Peter, 1961
Box 9, Folder 15 Krutch, Joseph Wood, 1961
Box 9, Folder 16 Kunstler, William M., 1962
Box 9, Folder 17 Labadie, Laurance, 1936
Box 9, Folder 18 Labor Colleges, 1938-1972
Box 9, Folder 19 LaGuardia, Fiorello H., 1941
Box 9, Folder 20 Laski, Harold, 1945
Box 9, Folder 21 League Against War and Fascism, 1933-1935
Box 9, Folder 22 League for Industrial Democracy Award, 1960
Box 9, Folder 23 Lehman, Fritz, 1917
Box 9, Folder 24 Lehman, Herbert, 1958-1962
Box 9, Folder 25 Liberalism, 1962
Box 9, Folder 26 Lilienthal, David, 1979
Box 9, Folder 27 Lindeman, Edward C., 1953-1955
Box 9, Folder 28 Lippman, Walter, undated
Box 9, Folder 29 Litchfield, Edward, 1968
Box 9, Folder 30 MacArthur, Douglas, 1947-1981
Box 9, Folder 31 Mack, Julian W., 1964
Box 9, Folder 32 Martha's Vineyard Gazette, 1953
Box 9, Folder 33 Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union, 1964
Box 9, Folder 34 McCarthyism, 1952-1958
Box 9, Folder 35 McCloy, John J., 1950
Box 9, Folder 36 Medal of Freedom (Presidential), 1981
Box 9, Folder 37 Medical Discrimination, 1970
Box 9, Folder 38 Meiklejohn, Alexander, 1965
Box 9, Folder 39 Morgenthau, Hans J., 1965
Box 9, Folder 40 Merrill, C.H., 1915
Box 9, Folder 41 Munzenberg, Willi, 1938-1940
Box 9, Folder 42 Murrow, Edward R., 1959
Box 9, Folder 43 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1914
Box 9, Folder 44 Nagel, Charles, 1954
Box 9, Folder 45 National Alliance on Shaping Safer Cities, 1970-1971
Box 9, Folder 46 National Civil Liberties Bureau, 1918
Box 10, Folder 1 National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, 1952-1959
Box 10, Folder 2 National Convocation on Free Speech, 1978
Box 10, Folder 3 National Endorsement Committee, 1915-1916
Box 10, Folder 4 Native American Issues, 1969-1979
Box 10, Folder 5 Navy Department, 1969
Box 10, Folder 6 Nearing, Scott, 1963
Box 10, Folder 7 Nettlau, Max, 1927
Box 10, Folder 8 New Deal, 1934
Box 10, Folder 9 New School for Social Research, 1940-1954
Box 10, Folder 10 New York University, 1969-1970
Box 10, Folder 11 Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1933-1960
Box 10, Folder 12 Northwestern University, 1974
Box 10, Folder 13 Offers of Jobs, 1908-1915
Box 10, Folder 14 O'Hare, Frank P., 1959-1981
Box 10, Folder 15 Okinawa and Ryukyus Islands – Civil Rights, 1959-1970
Box 10, Folder 16-18 One World Award Committee, 1950-1951
Box 10, Folder 19-20 Order of the Rising Sun, 1963
Box 10, Folder 21 Outdoors, 1965
Box 10, Folder 22 Pacifica Foundation, 1960
Box 10, Folder 23 Pacifist Organizations (SANE, Voluntary Organization & World Without War Conference, Turn Toward Peace, etc.), 1942-1970
Box 10, Folder 24 Pacifist Organizations, 1966
Box 10, Folder 25 Palmer, A. Mitchell, 1966
Box 11, Folder 1 Panel of Americans, 1968
Box 11, Folder 2 Pearson, T. Gilbert, 1959
Box 11, Folder 3 Personal, 1917, 1929-1981
Box 11, Folder 4-5 Planetary Citizenship Campaign, 1971-1974
Box 11, Folder 6 Pol, Heinz, 1950-1955
Box 11, Folder 7 Political Prisoners: Miscellaneous, 1934-1970
Box 11, Folder 8 Political Prisoners: International Committee for, 1927
Box 11, Folder 9 Post-War World Council, 1950
Box 11, Folder 10 Pozner, Vladimir, 1938
Box 11, Folder 11 Prison: Miscellaneous, 1918-1919
Box 11, Folder 12 Prison: Acquaintances or Strangers, 1918
Box 11, Folder 13 Prison: Articles about Baldwin's Prison Term, 1918
Box 11, Folder 14 Prison: Friends and Associates in St. Louis, 1918-1919
Box 11, Folder 15 Prison: Friends and Associates in Social Work, 1918-1919
Box 11, Folder 16 Prison: Friends in Civil Liberties Work, 1918-1919
Box 11, Folder 17 Prison: Immediate Family, 1918
Box 11, Folder 18 Prison: James, Oral and Stoltz, Otto, 1918-1919
Box 11, Folder 19 Prison: Mother, Baldwin's letters, 1918
Box 11, Folder 20 Prison: Mother, Others' letters to Baldwin's, 1918-1919
Box 11, Folder 21 Prison: Personal Friends, 1918
Box 11, Folder 22 Prison: Other Political Prisoners, 1918-1919
Box 12, Folder 1 Prison: Nonpolitical Prisoners, 1919
Box 12, Folder 2 Prison: Relatives, 1918-1919
Box 12, Folder 3 Publishers, 1932-1956
Box 12, Folder 4 Puerto Rico: Miscellaneous, 1948-1969
Box 12, Folder 5 Puerto Rico: Bird Pinero, Enrique, 1977
Box 12, Folder 6 Puerto Rico: Civil Rights, 1959-1965
Box 12, Folder 7 Puerto Rico: Civil Rights, 1966-1969
Box 12, Folder 8 Puerto Rico: Civil Rights, 1970-1971
Box 12, Folder 9 Puerto Rico: Civil Rights, 1972-1973
Box 12, Folder 10 Puerto Rico: Civil Rights, 1974-1978
Box 12, Folder 11 Puerto Rico: Draft Case, 1970
Box 12, Folder 12 Puerto Rico: Garcia Rodriguez, Pablo, 1970
Box 12, Folder 13 Puerto Rico: Inter-American University of Puerto Rico, 1965-1966
Box 12, Folder 14 Puerto Rico: Inter-American University of Puerto Rico, 1967-1970
Box 12, Folder 15 Puerto Rico: Munoz Marin, Luis, 1953-1973
Box 12, Folder 16 Puerto Rico: Presidential Vote, 1969-1970
Box 13, Folder 1 Puerto Rico: Presidential Vote, 1971
Box 13, Folder 2 Puerto Rico: University Demonstrations, 1966
Box 13, Folder 3 Puerto Rico: University of Puerto Rico Law School, 1966-1973
Box 13, Folder 4-8 Radicalism, 1915-1922
Box 13, Folder 9 Race Relations, 1969
Box 13, Folder 10 Reedy, William Marion, 1963
Box 13, Folder 11 Reedy, William Marion, 1963
Box 13, Folder 11 References, 1952-1964
Box 13, Folder 12 Reissig, Herman F., 1939-1973
Box 13, Folder 13 Remington, William W., 1948-1950
Box 13, Folder 14 Requests for Legal Aid, 1970
Box 13, Folder 15 Robert Marshall Civil Liberties Trust, 1956-1971
Box 13, Folder 16-17 Rockefeller, Laurance S., 1956
Box 13, Folder 18 Roger N. Baldwin Civil Liberties Foundation, 1967-1970
Box 14, Folder 1 Roger N. Baldwin Civil Liberties Foundation, 1969-1970
Box 14, Folder 2 Roger Baldwin Foundation of the ACLU, Inc., Illinois, 1969-1972
Box 14, Folder 3 Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1948-1964
Box 14, Folder 4 Rose, Milton C., 1956
Box 14, Folder 5 Ryman, Charlotte M., 1896-1898
Box 14, Folder 6 Ryman, Charlotte M., 1898-1899
Box 14, Folder 7 Ryman, Charlotte M., 1899-1918
Box 14, Folder 8 Ryman, Rosalyn, 1897
Box 14, Folder 9 Sacco-Vanzetti Case, 1922-1976
Box 14, Folder 10 Sacco-Vanzetti Memorial Award, 1981
Box 14, Folder 11 St. Louis Correspondence: Miscellaneous, 1911-1977
Box 14, Folder 12 St. Louis Correspondence: Fischel, Martha Ellis, 1939
Box 14, Folder 13 St. Louis Correspondence: St. Louis Neighborhood Association, 1915
Box 14, Folder 14 St. Louis Correspondence: St. Louis School of Social Economy, 1916
Box 14, Folder 15 St. Louis Correspondence: Taussig, Dr. William, 1940
Box 14, Folder 16 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1925-1955
Box 14, Folder 17 Salvemini, Gaetano, 1933-1934
Box 14, Folder 18 Sanger, Margaret, 1916, 1952-1967
Box 14, Folder 19 Scales, Junius (Petition for Pardon), 1962
Box 14, Folder 20 Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 1954-1961
Box 14, Folder 21 Schroeder, Theodore, 1970
Box 14, Folder 22 Sex Education - Fiske University, 1911
Box 14, Folder 23 Sinclair, Upton, 1939-1971
Box 14, Folder 23 Smith, Luther Ely, 1941-1951
Box 14, Folder 24 Sobell, Merton, 1958
Box 14, Folder 25 Social Service Conference, 1915
Box 14, Folder 26 Social Work - Miscellaneous, 1937
Box 14, Folder 27 Socialist Party, 1918
Box 14, Folder 28 Spanish Democracy/Refugees, 1939-1944
Box 15, Folder 1 Speaking Engagements, 1953-1979
Box 15, Folder 2 Speaking Engagements, 1948-1963
Box 15, Folder 3 Speiser, Lawrence, 1969
Box 15, Folder 4 State Conference of Charities and Corrections, 1912
Box 15, Folder 5 Stoeker, Helene, 1943
Box 15, Folder 6 Stolz, Otto, 1925-1930
Box 15, Folder 7 Strachey, John, 1933-1940
Box 15, Folder 8 Strong, Anna Louise, 1969-1981
Box 15, Folder 9 Sumeris, Edward, Jr., 1949-1958
Box 15, Folder 10 Supreme Court, 1927
Box 15, Folder 11 Survey, The, 1915-1971
Box 15, Folder 12 Thant, U, 1971
Box 15, Folder 13 Thomas, Norman, 1925-1971
Box 15, Folder 14 “Tokyo Rose” Book, 1978
Box 15, Folder 15 Tony Colket Fund, 1927-1968
Box 15, Folder 16 Tran Van Dinh, 1963-1974
Box 15, Folder 17 Tresca, Carlo, 1945-1964
Box 15, Folder 18 United Nations Treaty on Racial Discrimination, 1970
Box 15, Folder 19 University of the West Indies in Barbados, 1971
Box 15, Folder 20 Urey, Harold C., 1944-1955
Box 15, Folder 21 Valtin, Jan, 1941
Box 15, Folder 22 Van Dinh, Tran, 1963-1974
Box 15, Folder 23 Van Kleeck, Mary, 1938
Box 15, Folder 23 Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 1927
Box 15, Folder 24 Vietnam, 1969-1970
Box 15, Folder 25 Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1947
Box 15, Folder 26 Virgin Islands, 1966-1970
Box 15, Folder 27 Virgin Islands - Immigrant Labor, 1969-1971
Box 15, Folder 28 Von Trott, Adam, 1963-1970
Box 15, Folder 29 Vonnegut, Franklin, 1952
Box 15, Folder 30 Wallace, Roy, 1917
Box 15, Folder 31 Warbasse, James Peter & Agnes, 1941, 1956-1957
Box 15, Folder 32 Warburg, James P., 1949-1950
Box 15, Folder 33 Ward, Harry, 1961-1963
Box 15, Folder 34 Warren, Earl, 1970-1972
Box 16, Folder 1 Washington University, 1903-1958
Box 16, Folder 2 Washington University: Honorary Degree, 1968
Box 16, Folder 3 Westchester Committee for Human Rights, 1952
Box 16, Folder 4 West Coast Tour, 1950
Box 16, Folder 5 Wilkie, Wendell, 1941-1942
Box 16, Folder 6 William C. Whitney Foundation, 1956
Box 16, Folder 7 Williams, Chester S., 1968
Box 16, Folder 8 Williams, George H., 1948
Box 16, Folder 9 WINS News Conference, 1968
Box 16, Folder 10 Winston, Henry, 1960-1961
Box 16, Folder 11 Wirin, Al, 1963
Box 16, Folder 12 Woltman, Fred, 1968
Box 16, Folder 13 Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1950-1965
Box 16, Folder 14 World Federation, 1942-1965
Box 16, Folder 15 World War II, 1942
Box 16, Folder 16 Worth, Patience (alter ego of Mrs. John Curran), 1918-1964
Box 16, Folder 17 Yale Political Union, 1967
Box 16, Folder 18 Yale University, 1968-1970
Box 16, Folder 19 Young Men's Christian Association, 1939
Box 16, Folder 20 Young Males, 1911
Box 16, Folder 21 Series 2, Subject Files 1897-1981
Series Description
Series 2, Subject Files (1911-1981) contains a wide variety of materials relating to Baldwin's public life. The bulk of the documents in this series are notes, memoranda, printed matter, occasional articles, and other unpublished non-correspondence material. This series does not treat the range of subjects as does the Correspondence Series, but the subjects to which the material relate are treated in much greater depth.
Of special interest are the subseries containing notes, documents, and printed matter from Baldwin's various trips abroad, including to Germany and Austria, Japan and Korea, and the Soviet Union. These contain many of the documents with which Baldwin worked, as well as form letters he wrote to friends at home about his experiences and his own notes and reflections. Correspondence relating to these trips is located in the Correspondence Series. The materials from his trip to the Soviet Union are especially comprehensive, treating many aspects of life in the Soviet Union in the late 1920s, including religion, national minorities issues, and youth.
There is also a subseries called “Radicalism,” which contains documents from various Communist and radical political organizations active in the United States during the interwar years, among them Cooperative Farms, Inc., the Industrial Division of the National Conference of Social Work, the I.W.W., the Kuzbas Autonomous Industrial Colony, the League for Industrial Democracy, and the League for Mutual Aid Plan. Other subseries of interest are “African-Americans in St. Louis,” with materials relating to issues of segregation in St. Louis during the years Baldwin worked there, “The National Conference of Charities and Corrections,” with which Baldwin was involved in the 'teens, and “The ACLU.”
Various other smaller subject files comprise the remainder of this collection. There is printed matter from a variety of war-time organizations, information relating to the Rosenberg Case, the Point Four Program, human rights, the Middle East, Micronesia, Baldwin's 1959 World Tour, and a controversial profile about Baldwin published in the New Yorker.
Miscellaneous (Printed), 1917
Box 16, Folder 22 Africa, 1960
Box 16, Folder 23 African Americans in St. Louis: Industrial Conditions Among African Americans in St. Louis, 1914
Box 16, Folder 24 African Americans in St. Louis: Nation League in Urban Conditions Among Negroes, 1913-1914
Box 16, Folder 25 African Americans in St. Louis: St. Louis Committee for Social Service Among Colored People, 1911-1912
Box 16, Folder 26 African Americans in St. Louis: Segregation, 1912-1916
Box 16, Folder 27 African Americans in St. Louis: State Conference for Social Welfare - Committee on the Problems of Negroes, 1913
Box 16, Folder 28 African Americans in St. Louis: Washington University - Segregation of Classes, 1911
Box 16, Folder 29 ACLU: Chronology, 1917-1945
Box 16, Folder 30 ACLU: International Issues, 1948-1953
Box 16, Folder 31 American Union Against Militarism (Printed), 1917
Box 16, Folder 32 Assembly of Captive European Nations Award, 1964
Box 16, Folder 33 Bill of Rights Education, 1963
Box 16, Folder 34 Conscientious Objection (Miscellaneous printed), 1917
Box 16, Folder 35 Drinking Songs (Harvard), undated
Box 16, Folder 36 Egypt, 1969
Box 16, Folder 37 Europe (Notes), 1952
Box 16, Folder 38 Farewell Dinner, 1950
Box 17, Folder 1 First American Conference on Democracy and Terms of Peace (Printed), 1917
Box 17, Folder 2 Germany and Austria: Circular Letter, 1948
Box 17, Folder 3 Germany and Austria: Austria - Miscellaneous, 1945
Box 17, Folder 4 Germany and Austria: Austria - Notebook, 1948
Box 17, Folder 5 Germany and Austria: Austria - Report, 1948
Box 17, Folder 6 Germany and Austria: Germany - Materials, 1948
Box 17, Folder 7 Germany and Austria: Germany - Notebook, 1948
Box 17, Folder 8 Germany and Austria: Germany - Notes, 1948
Box 17, Folder 9 Germany and Austria: Germany - Reports and Memoranda, 1948
Box 17, Folder 10 Germany and Austria: Germany - Miscellaneous, 1950
Box 17, Folder 11 Germany and Austria: Germany - Materials, 1950
Box 17, Folder 12 Germany and Austria: Germany - Memoranda, 1950
Box 17, Folder 13 Germany and Austria: Germany - Notes, 1950
Box 17, Folder 14 House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1958
Box 17, Folder 15 Human Rights, 1949-1951
Box 17, Folder 16 Human Rights, 1970
Box 17, Folder 17 International Affairs and Foreign Policy Memoranda, 1965
Box 17, Folder 18 International Organization/ United Nations, 1941
Box 17, Folder 19 International League for the Rights of Man, 1950
Box 17, Folder 20 Interview with David Frost
Box 17, Folder 21 Israel and Egypt, 1960
Box 17, Folder 22 Japan and Korea: Civil Liberties Issues, 1947
Box 17, Folder 23 Japan and Korea: Articles About Baldwin, 1930
Box 18, Folder 1 Japan and Korea: Circular Letter, 1947
Box 18, Folder 2 Japan and Korea: Notes and Materials, 1947
Box 18, Folder 3-4 Japan and Korea: Japan - Notes and Materials, 1947
Box 18, Folder 5 Japan and Korea: Japan - Printed Matter, 1946
Box 18, Folder 6 Japan and Korea: Japan - Reports, 1947
Box 18, Folder 7 Japan and Korea: Korea - Notes and Materials, 1946-1947
Box 18, Folder 8 Japanese-Americans in World War II, 1943-1947
Box 18, Folder 9 List of Publications by Roger N. Baldwin, 1931
Box 18, Folder 10 MacDonald, Dwight article in New Yorker about Roger N. Baldwin, 1950-1953
Box 18, Folder 11 Micronesia, 1969-1970
Box 18, Folder 12 Middle East - Notes and Materials, 1952
Box 18, Folder 13 Missouri Social Legislation, 1916
Box 18, Folder 14 National Civil Liberties Bureau (Printed), 1917
Box 18, Folder 15 National Civil Liberties Bureau (Printed), 1918
Box 18, Folder 16 National Conference of Charities and Corrections: National Conference, 1913
Box 18, Folder 17 National Conference of Charities and Corrections: Committee on Kindred Groups
Box 18, Folder 18 National Conference of Charities and Corrections: Publicity and Publications, 1916
Box 18, Folder 19 People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace (printed), 1917
Box 18, Folder 20 Point Four Program, 1949
Box 19, Folder 1 Police and Human Relations (NYU Conference), 1959
Box 19, Folder 2 Radicalism: Miscellaneous, 1919, 1952
Box 19, Folder 3 Radicalism: Communist Correspondence, 1934-1935
Box 19, Folder 4 Radicalism: Cooperative Farms, Inc., 1939-1935
Box 19, Folder 4 Radicalism: Industrial Division - National Conference of Social Work, 1918-1924
Box 19, Folder 5 Radicalism: Industrial Workers of the World, 1919-1967
Box 19, Folder 6 Radicalism: Kuzbas Autonomous Industrial Colony, 1922-1924, 1974
Box 19, Folder 7 Radicalism: League for Industrial Democracy, 1920-1938
Box 19, Folder 8 Radicalism: League for Mutual Aid Plan, undated
Box 19, Folder 9 Rosenberg Case, 1952-1953
Box 19, Folder 10 St. Louis Civil League (Organizational Material), undated
Box 19, Folder 11 Soviet Union: Miscellaneous, 1928
Box 19, Folder 12 Soviet Union: Friends of Soviet Russia, 1922-1923
Box 19, Folder 13 Soviet Union: Censorship, 1927
Box 19, Folder 14 Soviet Union: Georgia, 1927
Box 19, Folder 15 Soviet Union: Government, 1926
Box 19, Folder 16 Soviet Union: “Liberty Under the Soviets” - Material, 1927
Box 19, Folder 17 Soviet Union: National Minorities, 1921
Box 19, Folder 18 Soviet Union: Pacifism and the Military, 1926
Box 19, Folder 19 Soviet Union: Political Opposition and Political Prisoners, 1927
Box 19, Folder 20 Soviet Union: Religion, 1924-1926
Box 19, Folder 21 Soviet Union: Rights of Peasants and Workers, 1928
Box 19, Folder 22 Soviet Union: Trip, 1927
Box 19, Folder 23 Soviet Union: Trip, 1967
Box 19, Folder 24 Soviet Union: World Congress Against War, 1932
Box 20, Folder 1 Soviet Union: Youth, 1927
Box 20, Folder 2 Student Liberties, 1969
Box 20, Folder 3 White House Luncheon, 1963
Box 20, Folder 4 World Tour, 1959
Box 20, Folder 5 World Tour: Notes, 1959
Box 20, Folder 6 World Tour: Report and Circular Letter, 1959
Box 20, Folder 7 Series 3, Writings and Speeches (1912-1978)
Series Description
Series 3, Writings and Speeches (1912-1978): Baldwin was a prolific writer and speaker, although his only books were Juvenile Courts and Probation, written while he was in St. Louis, Liberty Under the Soviets, written in 1928, and Civil Liberties and Industrial Conflict, a book of speeches Baldwin gave at Harvard University with industrialist Clarence B. Randall, which was published in 1938. Baldwin was working on an autobiography sporadically during the 1950s and 1960s, but it was never
published. This autobiography was an offshoot of his contribution to Columbia University's Oral History Project and represented an expansion of his first series of reminiscences recorded at Columbia in 1953. In 1963 Baldwin recorded his memories of the intervening ten years for the Oral History Project, but he never attempted to turn this second part into a book.
Series 3 is divided into two subseries, “Writings” and “Speeches.” Within each subseries the writings and speeches are organized according to subject matter. The bulk of Baldwin's articles were written while he was director of the ACLU and chairman of the International League for the Rights of Man. While many of them obviously touch on civil liberties and human rights issues, he also wrote about foreign affairs, race relations, radicalism, St. Louis, and social work. His articles include various short biographical sketches, and he wrote many book reviews. While he was in prison he also tried his hand at some poetry, although this was his only experimentation with this genre. His speeches deal with many of the same topics as his articles. Some of his speeches are in the form of full-text transcriptions, while some are merely notes.
Subseries 1, Writings
Miscellaneous, 1933-1969
Box 20, Folder 8 ACLU, 1955-1967
Box 20, Folder 9 Oral History (Part II), Columbia University, 1963
Box 20, Folder 10 Autobiography (1884-1920) - Manuscript, 1950s
Box 20, Folder 11 Autobiography (1920-1931) - Manuscript, 1950s
Box 20, Folder 12 Autobiography (1947-1950) - Manuscript, 1950s
Box 20, Folder 13 Autobiography (1947-1950) - Manuscript, 1950s
Box 21, Folder 1 Autobiography (1947-1950) and Index - Manuscript, 1950s
Box 21, Folder 2 Autobiography - Galley Proof, 1950s
Box 21, Folder 3 Autobiography - Galley Proof w/ notes by William Frankel, 1950s
Box 21, Folder 4 Autobiography Comments, 1955-1959
Box 21, Folder 5 Autobiography - Outlines and Notes, 1963
Box 21, Folder 6 Biographies, 1909-1969
Box 21, Folder 7 Book Reviews, 1931-1965
Box 21, Folder 8-9 Civil Liberties, 1923-1979
Box 22, Folder 1-4 Civil Liberties and Industrial Conflict (Book Reviews), 1938
Box 22, Folder 5 Education, 1933
Box 22, Folder 6 Foreign Issues: Africa, 1923-1942
Box 22, Folder 7 Foreign Issues: Canada, 1924
Box 22, Folder 8 Foreign Issues: Europe, 1935-1946
Box 22, Folder 9 Foreign Issues: Germany and Austria, 1933-1951
Box 22, Folder 10 Foreign Issues: India, 1945
Box 22, Folder 11 Foreign Issues: Japan and Korea, 1947-1948
Box 22, Folder 12 Foreign Issues: Japan, 1947-1948
Box 22, Folder 13 Foreign Issues: Korea, 1947-1950
Box 22, Folder 14 Foreign Issues: Latin America, undated
Box 22, Folder 15 Foreign Issues: Middle East, 1953-1955
Box 22, Folder 16 Foreign Issues: Soviet Union, 1935-1953
Box 22, Folder 17 Human Rights, 1950-1966
Box 22, Folder 18 International Organization, 1948-1975
Box 22, Folder 19 Letters to the Editor, 1940-1975
Box 22, Folder 20 Liberty Under the Soviets - Reaction, 1928-1929
Box 22, Folder 21 Prison, 1918-1919
Box 22, Folder 22 Race Relations, 1943-1946
Box 22, Folder 23 Radicalism, 1922-1949
Box 23, Folder 1 St. Louis, 1917
Box 23, Folder 2 Social Work, 1912-1936
Box 23, Folder 3 War, Pacifism, and Military, 1922-1966
Box 23, Folder 4 Subseries 2, Speeches
Miscellaneous, 1940-1976
Box 23, Folder 5 ACLU, 1955-1957
Box 23, Folder 6 Civil Liberties, 1922-1978
Box 23, Folder 7-9 Foreign Issues: Africa, 1946
Box 23, Folder 10 Foreign Issues: Asia, 1957-1959
Box 23, Folder 11 Foreign Issues: Europe, 1928-1958
Box 23, Folder 12 Foreign Issues: Germany, 1933-1951
Box 23, Folder 13 Foreign Issues: Japan, undated
Box 23, Folder 14 Foreign Issues: Middle East, undated
Box 23, Folder 15 Foreign Issues: Soviet Union, undated
Box 23, Folder 16 Foreign Policy, 1960
Box 23, Folder 17 Human Rights, 1951-1973
Box 23, Folder 18 International Organization, 1947-1978
Box 24, Folder 1 Notebook (Human Rights, United Nations, United States, General), undated
Box 24, Folder 2 Radicalism, 1931-1954
Box 24, Folder 3 Social Work, undated
Box 24, Folder 4 War, Pacifism, and the Military, 1942-1968
Box 24, Folder 5 Series 4, Miscellaneous (1922-1981)
Series Description
Series 4, Miscellaneous (1922-1981) contains a variety of material relating to Baldwin directly. The crown jewel of this series is the collection of memoranda Baldwin wrote about himself and others that he knew. These memoranda cover topics ranging from the Scopes trial to Baldwin's attitude towards money. These memoranda not only help to clear up confusion about Baldwin's biography; they also offer an unusually direct glimpse into his mind, for he wrote freely about his attitudes and even relatively personal aspects of his life.
Besides Baldwin's musings on himself, this series also contains various pieces of writing about Baldwin by others: an extensive collection of articles, a Harvard senior thesis, an interview conducted by a high school student, and a manuscript chapter of an autobiographical book by Madeleine Doty. Baldwin's FBI files are included here as well.
Articles About Roger Baldwin, 1931-1978
Box 24, Folder 6-9 Autobiographical Sketches of Roger N. Baldwin, 1940-1979
Box 24, Folder 10 Diamond, Benjamin David: “Conflicts Resolved: RNB and the Founding of the ACLU” (senior thesis), 1974
Box 24, Folder 11 Simmers, Paul: Interview with Roger N. Baldwin, 1963
Box 24, Folder 12 Madeleine Doty: chapter about Roger N. Baldwin, undated
Box 24, Folder 13 Memoranda on Baldwin's public life (1965 collection), 1965
Box 24, Folder 14 Memoranda on People, 1965-1974
Box 25, Folder 1 Memoranda on Baldwin's personal and public life and views, 1950-1978
Box 25, Folder 2 FBI Records, 1922-1965
Box 25, Folder 3-9 Passports, 1963-1977
Box 25, Folder 10 Drawings of Roger N. Baldwin, Drawing of his farm Dell Brook, 1886-1973
Box 25, Folder 11 Drawings of Roger N. Baldwin at 91st birthday, 1975
Box 25, Folder 12 Series 5, Photographs (1885?-1981)
Series Description
Series 5, Photographs (ca. 1885-1981) includes photographs from almost all periods of Baldwin's life.
This series is divided into four subseries: Events (1950-1981), Personal (ca. 1885-1979), Political Activity (1919-1979), and Portraits (ca. 1906-ca. 1975). The photographs in “Events” are mainly of dinners and other events held in Baldwin's honor. Many prominent people attended these occasions, including Josephine Baker, Edward Kennedy, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Marietta Tree. The “Personal” subseries includes baby pictures of Baldwin, photos of him outdoors, pictures of Baldwin's siblings and mother, as well as of both his wives and of his children. Also in this series is the family album of the Chaplin family (Ralph, Edith, and Ivan), some of Baldwin's close friends in the radical movement (Ralph was the editor of an I.W.W. publication). The “Political Activity” subseries contains photographs of various political events in which Baldwin participated, as well as photographs from Baldwin's trips to Japan, Korea, and Germany. The “Portraits” subseries includes formal and informal photographs of Baldwin, as well as some pictures taken of him for a New York Times piece on cookery.
Events: One World Award Committee, 1