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Arthur Garfield Hays Papers, 1915-1955: Finding Aid
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Summary Information
- Creator:
- Hays, Arthur Garfield, 1881-1954.
- Title and dates:
- Arthur Garfield Hays Papers
- 1915-1955
- Abstract:
- The Arthur Garfield Hays Papers consist of correspondence, case files, speeches, articles, books, news clippings, and photos which document his career as a New York City lawyer and general counsel for the ACLU.
- Size:
- 18.02 linear feet
- (41 archival boxes, 1 photograph box).
- Call number:
- MC072
- Location:
- Princeton University Library. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library.
Public Policy Papers.
Princeton, New Jersey 08540 USA - Language(s) of materials:
- English
- Storage note:
- This collection is stored onsite at the Mudd Manuscript Library.
Biography
Arthur Garfield Hays was born in Rochester, New York on December 12, 1881. His father and mother, both of German descent, belonged to prospering families in the clothing manufacturing industry. After graduating from City College of New York in 1902 and going on to receive his law degree from Columbia in 1905, Hays formed a law firm with two of his former classmates that gained prominence representing German interests in World War I.
Hays was active in civil liberties issues before becoming general counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union in 1920. From this point one can recognize the emergence of what many have called Hays's “dual personality,” in which he became a wealthy lawyer who represented the interests of power and fame (his more prominent clients ranged from Wall Street brokers and best-selling authors to notorious gamblers and the Dionne quintuplets)--while at the same time rigorously defending the individual liberty of victims of discriminatory laws.
The list of famous cases in which Hays took part is lengthy, including the Scopes trial (often called the “monkey trial”) in 1925 in which a school teacher in Tennessee was tried for teaching evolution; the Sacco and Vanzetti case in which two Italian anarchists in Boston were put to death in 1927 for a murder they denied committing; and the Scottsboro case where eight black men from Alabama were condemned to die in 1931 for allegedly attacking two white women. Hays also attended the Reichstag trial in Berlin on behalf of Georgi Dmitrov, a Bulgarian Communist tried by Nazis in 1933 for burning the Reichstag.
In addition to his work as a lawyer, Hays wrote an astounding number of books and articles. As a gifted writer and eloquent debater, he added his perspective to virtually every individual rights issue of his day. His autobiography, entitled City Lawyer: the Autobiography of a Law Practice (1942), provides a colorful account of his more noteworthy cases, and his articles and book reviews demonstrate his wide-ranging knowledge of a nation and a world experiencing dramatic change in the way individual rights were perceived.
Hays married Blanche Marks in 1908 and divorced her in 1924. They had one daughter, Mrs. Lora Spindell. He married Aline Davis Fleisher in 1924, who died in 1944. They also had a daughter, Mrs. Jane Butler. After more than four decades at the center of the individual rights debate, Hays died of a heart attack on December 14, 1954.
Description
Consists of correspondence, case files, speeches, articles, books, news clippings, and photographs which document Hays's career as a New York City lawyer and general counsel for the ACLU beginning in 1920. Case files comprise the single largest series of this collection and include correspondence, court papers, legal briefs, and other items related to particular court cases in which Hays was a participant. The bulk of this material concerns the numerous legal motions filed in many high-profile cases involving Hays, such as labor disputes in the coal mining districts of Pennsylvania and West Virginia (1922-1935), including the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1922; right to strike cases taken against Jersey City, NJ, mayor Frank “Boss” Hague; John Strachey's deportation case; the Emerson Jennings vs. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania conspiracy case; the Jehovah's Witnesses and the right not to salute the American flag; the case of Stanley E. Faithful vs. the DAILY MIRROR and other newspapers on charges of libel conerning the circumstances of his daughter's death (much of the material collected by Hays's brother Alan); and cases relating to communism and sedition in the 1940s.
Arrangement
Organized into the following series:
- Series 1, Correspondence, 1915-1954
- Series 2, Court Cases, 1915-1956
- Series 3, Speeches, 1923-1954
- Series 4, Articles, 1915-1952
- Series 5, Books, undated
- Series 6, News Clippings, 1927-1954
- Series 7, Alan Hays Material, 1930-1941
- Series 8, Photographs, 1925-1937
- Series 9, Oversize Materials, undated
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. The Hays family retains rights in his unpublished work which will continue under current copyright law through December 14, 2004. Researchers are responsible for determining any question of copyright.
Processing and Other Information
Processing Information
This collection was processed by Clement C. Doyle and Shawn O'Neil (members of Princeton's Class of 1995) during the 1994-1995 academic year. Finding aid written by Clement C. Doyle and Shawn O'Neil (members of Princeton's Class of 1995) during the 1994-1995 academic year.
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 November 3, 2006.
Language(s) of this Finding Aid
Finding aid written in English.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Arthur Garfield Hays Papers, Box and Folder Number; Public Policy Papers, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Subject Headings
These materials have been indexed in the Princeton University Library online catalog using the following terms. Those seeking related materials should search under these terms.
- Faithful, Stanley E. -- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Hague, Frank, 1876-1956 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Hays, Alan S. -- Contributions to law.
- Jennings, Emerson -- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Scopes, John Thomas, 1900-1970 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Strachey, John, 1901-1963 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
- American Civil Liberties Union.
- Mayor's Commission on Conditions in Harlem (N.Y.)
- United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-1944)
- Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- 20th century.
- Anthracite Coal Strike, Pa., 1922.
- Civil rights -- Puerto Rico -- 20th century.
- Civil rights -- United States -- 20th century.
- Coal mines and mining -- Pennsylvania -- 20th century.
- Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- 20th century.
- Communist trials -- United States -- 20th century.
- Labor disputes -- Pennsylvania -- 20th century.
- Labor disputes -- West Virginia -- 20th century.
- Lawyers -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century.
- Sacco-Vanzetti Trial, Dedham, Mass., 1921.
- Labor union meetings -- Pennsylvania -- 20th century.
- Labor union meetings -- West Virginia -- 20th century.
- Trials (Libel) -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century.
- Trials (Sedition) -- United States -- 20th century.
- Trials -- United States -- 20th century.
- Legal correspondence.
- Legal documents.
- Manuscripts.
- Photographs.
- Scrapbooks.
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Contents List
Series 1, Correspondence, 1915-1954
Description: Series 1, Correspondence, 1915-1955, is arranged chronologically and primarily documents the scheduling (and not content) of Hays's speaking engagements and housekeeping details related to his writings. There are occasional letters to editors and other memoranda regarding issues of substance. The most significant segment of this series are those files identified as relating to Hays's involvment with the ACLU.
Misc., circa 1920 and undated, circa 1920, undated
Box 1, Folder 1 ACLU Misc, undated
Box 1, Folder 2 A-W, 1915-1917
Box 1, Folder 3-4 Tucker, Goltz Case, 1916
Box 1, Folder 5 A-Z, 1918, 1922, 1924, 1925
Box 1, Folder 6 West Virginia & ACLU, 1924
Box 1, Folder 7 A-Z, 1926
Box 1, Folder 8 A-J, 1927
Box 1, Folder 9 K-Z, 1927
Box 1, Folder 10 Brown University, Information on, 1926-1929
Box 1, Folder 11 Printed Material (Misc.), 1927-1928
Box 1, Folder 12 Material on Arthur G. Hays, 1928
Box 1, Folder 13 A-K, 1928
Box 1, Folder 14 L-Z, 1928
Box 2, Folder 1 Daughters of the American Revolution & Related Material, 1928
Box 2, Folder 2 A-J, 1929
Box 2, Folder 3 K-Z, 1929
Box 2, Folder 4 Cuba, Information on, 1929
Box 2, Folder 5 A-Z, 1930
Box 2, Folder 6 ACLU Injunctions, 1930-1932
Box 2, Folder 7-8 A-Z, 1931
Box 2, Folder 9 Books, 1931-1935
Box 2, Folder 10 ACLU, 1932-1934
Box 2, Folder 11 A-Z, 1932
Box 3, Folder 1 ACLU - Banking Bill, 1934
Box 3, Folder 2 A-Z, 1934
Box 3, Folder 3 German Inquiry & Related Material, 1934
Box 3, Folder 4 A-Z, 1935-1936
Box 3, Folder 5 ACLU, 1935-1936
Box 3, Folder 6-7 Germany Inquiry & Related Material, 1935
Box 3, Folder 8 ACLU - American Friends of Spanish Democracy, 1937
Box 3, Folder 10 A-Z, 1937
Box 3, Folder 9 ACLU - Maverick Civil Rights Bill, 1936-1937
Box 4, Folder 1 ACLU, 1937
Box 4, Folder 2 Leon Trotsky, concerning, 1937
Box 4, Folder 4 ACLU, 1937
Box 4, Folder 3 Books, 1937
Box 4, Folder 5 Speeches, 1937
Box 4, Folder 6-7 ACLU - Dies Committee, 1938
Box 4, Folder 8 ACLU, 1938 January-May
Box 4, Folder 9 ACLU, 1938 June-December
Box 5, Folder 1 ACLU - Mailings, 1938
Box 5, Folder 2 ACLU - National Labor Relations Board, 1938
Box 5, Folder 3 Books, 1938
Box 5, Folder 4 A-W, 1938
Box 5, Folder 5 Speeches, 1938
Box 5, Folder 6 Viereck, George Sylvester, 1938
Box 5, Folder 7 ACLU, 1939
Box 5, Folder 8-9 ACLU - Dies Committee, 1939
Box 6, Folder 1 ACLU - Mailings, 1939
Box 6, Folder 2 Book, 1939
Box 6, Folder 3-5 A-Y, 1939
Box 6, Folder 6 Speeches, 1939
Box 6, Folder 7-8 ACLU, 1940
Box 7, Folder 1-3 ACLU - Dies Committees, 1940
Box 7, Folder 4 ACLU - Mailings, 1940
Box 7, Folder 5 ACLU - Plotkin, Norman, 1940
Box 7, Folder 6 ACLU - Wiener, Arthur, 1940
Box 7, Folder 7 Book, 1940
Box 7, Folder 8 A-Z, 1940
Box 7, Folder 9 Speeches, 1940
Box 8, Folder 1 ACLU, 1941
Box 8, Folder 2-4 ACLU Mailings, 1941
Box 8, Folder 5 ACLU - Minneapolis Case, 1941
Box 8, Folder 6 ACLU - Wiener, Arthur, 1941
Box 8, Folder 7 ACLU - Work Projects Administration, 1941
Box 8, Folder 8 Books, 1941
Box 9, Folder 1 A-C, 1941
Box 9, Folder 2 D-H, 1941
Box 9, Folder 3 I-M, 1941
Box 9, Folder 4 N-R, 1941
Box 9, Folder 5 S-Z, 1941
Box 9, Folder 6 Miscellaneous, 1941
Box 9, Folder 7 Speeches, 1941
Box 9, Folder 8 ACLU - Chicago Communist Case, 1942
Box 9, Folder 9 ACLU, 1942 January-May
Box 9, Folder 10 ACLU, 1942
Box 10, Folder 1-4 ACLU - Lever v. McIntyre, 1942
Box 10, Folder 5 ACLU - Mississippi Power Investigation, 1942
Box 10, Folder 6 ACLU - Removal of Citizens from Military Areas, 1942
Box 10, Folder 7 ACLU - Sedition Cases, 1942
Box 10, Folder 8 ACLU - War Cases - Christians, 1942
Box 10, Folder 9 ACLU - Wiener, Arthur, 1942
Box 10, Folder 10 Biographical Sketches of Arthur G. Hays, 1942
Box 10, Folder 11 A-L, 1942
Box 10, Folder 12 M-W, 1942
Box 10, Folder 13 Books, 1942 January-October
Box 11, Folder 1-8 Books, 1942 November-December
Box 12, Folder 1 ACLU - ACLU v. Casey, 1943
Box 12, Folder 2 ACLU, 1943
Box 12, Folder 3-4 ACLU - Mailings, 1943
Box 12, Folder 5 A - B, 1943
Box 12, Folder 6 C - K, 1943
Box 12, Folder 7 L - O, 1943
Box 12, Folder 8 P - Z, 1943
Box 12, Folder 9 ACLU, 1944
Box 13, Folder 1-2 ACLU - Labor Committee, 1944
Box 13, Folder 3 ACLU - Mailings, 1944
Box 13, Folder 4 American Economic Foundation, 1944
Box 13, Folder 5 A - K, 1944
Box 13, Folder 6 L - W, 1944
Box 13, Folder 7 ACLU, 1945
Box 13, Folder 8-9 ACLU - DeMille, 1945
Box 13, Folder 10 ACLU - Johnson, Ralph, 1945
Box 13, Folder 11 ACLU - Mailings, 1945
Box 13, Folder 12 A - H, 1945
Box 14, Folder 1 I - Y, 1945
Box 14, Folder 2 ACLU - Amnesty Committee, 1946
Box 14, Folder 3 ACLU - Canadian Spy Case, 1946
Box 14, Folder 4 ACLU, 1946
Box 14, Folder 5-6 ACLU - Mailings, 1946
Box 14, Folder 7 ACLU - Petrillo, 1946
Box 14, Folder 8 ACLU - Physicians Committee against Discrimination, 1946
Box 14, Folder 9 A - W, 1946
Box 14, Folder 10 ACLU - Johnson, William, 1947
Box 14, Folder 11 ACLU - Mailings, 1947
Box 14, Folder 12 ACLU - National Labor Relations Bill, 1947
Box 14, Folder 13 ACLU - Shanks Village, 1947
Box 14, Folder 14 ACLU, 1947
Box 14, Folder 15-16 A - Z, 1947
Box 14, Folder 17 ACLU - Mailings, 1948
Box 15, Folder 1 Hays, Arthur G, 1948
Box 15, Folder 2 ACLU - University of Puerto Rico, 1948
Box 15, Folder 3 A - L, 1948
Box 15, Folder 4 M - W, 1948
Box 15, Folder 5 Peoples Platform, 1949
Box 15, Folder 6 A - D, 1949
Box 15, Folder 7 E - H, 1949
Box 15, Folder 8 I - W, 1949
Box 15, Folder 9 A - H, 1950
Box 15, Folder 10 H - W, 1950
Box 15, Folder 11 Oursler, Fulton, 1950
Box 15, Folder 12 A - G, 1951
Box 15, Folder 13 H - Z, 1951
Box 16, Folder 1 ACLU, 1952
Box 16, Folder 2 A - G, 1952
Box 16, Folder 3 H - N, 1952
Box 16, Folder 4 O - Z, 1952
Box 16, Folder 5 A - F, 1953
Box 16, Folder 6 G - O, 1953
Box 16, Folder 7 P - Z, 1953
Box 16, Folder 8 A - L, 1954
Box 16, Folder 9 M - Z, 1954
Box 16, Folder 10 Funeral of Arthur G. Hays, 1954 December-1955 January
Box 16, Folder 11 Series 2, Court Cases, 1915-1956
Description: Series 2, Case Files, 1921-1956, is arranged alphabetically by case name and includes correspondence, court papers, legal briefs, and other items related to particular court cases in which Hays was a participant. The bulk of this series consists of material regarding the numerous legal motions filed in many high-profile cases involving Hays such as labor disputes in the coal mining districts of Pennsylvania and West Virginia (1922-1935), including the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1922 and right to strike cases taken against Jersey City, NJ mayor Frank “Boss” Hague; John Strachey's deportation case; the Emerson Jennings vs. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania conspiracy case; the Jehovah's Witnesses and the right not to salute the American flag; the case of Stanley E. Faithful vs. the Daily Mirror and other newspapers on charges of libel concerning the circumstances of his daughter's death; and cases relating to communism and sedition in the 1940s. Hays work in various organizations is also represented in this series, including his service on the Mayor's Commission on Conditions in Harlem (formed after police killed a Harlem man under suspicious conditions) and the Committee for Fair Play to Puerto Rico (organized to investigate civil liberties after the Ponce massacre of 1937 in which police killed fifty demonstrating civilians). The general and miscellaneous portions of this series contain printed materials such as briefs, motions, appeals, and petitions for various cases.
ACLU v. American Mercury - Correspondence, 1937-1938
Box 17, Folder 1 ACLU v. American Mercury - Documents, 1937-1938
Box 17, Folder 2 ACLU v. Casey - Correspondence, 1937-1938
Box 17, Folder 3 ACLU v. Casey - Documents, 1937-1938
Box 17, Folder 4 ACLU v. Casey - Transcript of Record, 1937
Box 17, Folder 5 The American League of the Friends of New Germany v. Eastmead, 1934
Box 17, Folder 6 Arrowhead Press v. Frank C. Walter - Client's Paper, 1942-1943
Box 17, Folder 7 Arrowhead v. Frank C. Walter - Correspondence, 1943-1944
Box 17, Folder 8 Arrowhead Press v. Frank C. Walker - Documents, 1943
Box 17, Folder 9 Bell et al v. United States - Documents, 1945-1948
Box 18, Folder 1 Pedro Albizu Campos v. United States, 1936
Box 18, Folder 2 Chicago Communist Case, 1942
Box 18, Folder 3 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Emerson Jennings -- Analysis of Testimony, 1935
Box 18, Folder 4 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Emerson Jennings - Documents, 1937
Box 18, Folder 5 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Emerson Jennings - Confessions, 1935
Box 18, Folder 6 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Emerson Jennings - Correspondence, 1935-1936
Box 18, Folder 7-10 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Emerson Jennings - Correspondence, 1937-1939
Box 19, Folder 1-7 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Emerson Jennings - Documents, 1935, undated
Box 19, Folder 8-9 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Emerson Jennings - Documents, 1936-1938
Box 20, Folder 1-3 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Emerson Jennings - Exhibits, 1935-1939
Box 20, Folder 4 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Emerson Jennings - Hearings, 1936, undated
Box 20, Folder 5 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Emerson Jennings - Miscellaneous, 1936-1938
Box 20, Folder 7 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Emerson Jennings - Points of Charge, 1935
Box 20, Folder 9 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Emerson Jennings - Preliminary Hearing, 1935
Box 20, Folder 10 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Emerson Jennings - Report by Lora Hays, 1937
Box 20, Folder 11 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Emerson Jennings - Stenographer's Record, 1935
Box 20, Folder 12 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Emerson Jennings - Testimony, 1935
Box 20, Folder 13 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Emerson Jennings - Testimony, 1935
Box 21, Folder 1-7 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Emerson Jennings - Testimony, 1935
Box 22, Folder 1 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Emerson Jennings - Testimony of New Trial, 1935
Box 22, Folder 2-3 Davidowitz v. Hines - Documents, 1939
Box 22, Folder 4 Doyle et al v. Atwell - Miscellaneous, 1921-1922
Box 22, Folder 5 Edmondson Case - Documents, 1939
Box 22, Folder 6 Eitingon Estate - Correspondence, 1922-1924
Box 22, Folder 7 Louis Espinosa, et al v. P.R. Price - Documents, 1945
Box 22, Folder 8 Esquire v. Frank C. Walker - Documents, 1943-1945
Box 22, Folder 9 Esquire v. Frank C. Walker - Miscellaneous, 1943-1945
Box 22, Folder 10 Ferguson Brothers - Miscellaneous, 1946
Box 22, Folder 11 Free French Case - Documents Regarding Deportation Proceedings, 1943
Box 22, Folder 12 Free French Case - Correspondence, 1943
Box 22, Folder 13 Free French Case - Miscellaneous, 1943
Box 22, Folder 14 Fuchs, Max Case, 1943-1944
Box 22, Folder 15 Gallaher v. American Legion - Documents, 1933
Box 22, Folder 16 Gastonia Case - Documents, 1929
Box 22, Folder 17 General - Court Papers, 1922-1939
Box 23, Folder 1-5 General - Court Papers, 1940-1947, 1950-1955
Box 24, Folder 1-5 Gibalowski v. Uhl - Miscellaneous, 1950-1955
Box 24, Folder 6 Gwinn Amendment Cases - Correspondence, 1955-1956
Box 25, Folder 1 Gwinn Amendment Cases - Lawons v. Housing Authority of Milwaukee, WI, 1954-1955
Box 25, Folder 2 Gwinn Amendment Cases - Miscellaneous, 1954-1956
Box 25, Folder 3 Gwinn Amendment - New York City Housing Authority v. Barkin, 1955
Box 25, Folder 4 Gwinn Amendment Cases - New York City Housing Authority v. Bubuld, 1955-1956
Box 25, Folder 5 Gwinn Amendment - New York City Housing Authority v. Bodden, 1955-1956
Box 25, Folder 6 Gwinn Amendment - New York City Housing Authority v. Eisenberg, 1955
Box 25, Folder 7 Gwinn Amendment - New York City Housing Authority v. Exler, 1955-1956
Box 25, Folder 8 Gwinn Amendment - New York City Housing Authority v. Garcia, 1955
Box 25, Folder 9 Gwinn Amendment - New York City Housing Authority v. Levine, 1955-1956
Box 25, Folder 10 Gwinn Amendment - New York City Housing Authority v. Clarence Schmidt, 1955
Box 25, Folder 11 Gwinn Amendment - New York City Housing Authority v. Sichel, 1955
Box 25, Folder 12 Gwinn Amendment - Rebecca Peters, v. New York City Housing Authority, 1955
Box 25, Folder 13 Gwinn Amendment - Weixel v. New York City Housing Authority, 1955-1956
Box 25, Folder 14 Hague Cases - Documents, 1937-1938
Box 25, Folder 15 Hague Cases - Correspondence, 1937-1938
Box 25, Folder 16 Hague Cases - Miscellaneous, 1937
Box 25, Folder 17 Hannegan v. Esquire - Documents, 1945
Box 25, Folder 18 Harlem, Mayor's Commission on Conditions in - Miscellaneous, 1934-1935
Box 25, Folder 19 Harlem, Mayor's Commission on Conditions in - Correspondence, 1935-1943
Box 26, Folder 1 Harlem, Mayor's Commission on Conditions in - Notes, 1935
Box 26, Folder 3 Harlem, Mayor's Commission on Conditions in - Reports, 1935
Box 26, Folder 4 Harlem, Mayor's Commission on Conditions in - “Slumbering Fires in Harlem”, 1935
Box 26, Folder 5 Harlem, Mayor's Commission on Conditions in - Testimony, 1935
Box 26, Folder 6 Harlem, Mayor's Commission on Conditions in - Transcripts, 1935
Box 26, Folder 7 Hering v. State Board of Education, New Jersey - Documents, undated
Box 26, Folder 8 Igantius v. Week - Documents, 1935
Box 26, Folder 9 Immigration - Correspondence, 1923-1932
Box 26, Folder 10-11 James v. Marchinship Corporation - Documents, 1944
Box 26, Folder 12 Jehovah's Witnesses - Correspondence, 1937
Box 26, Folder 13 Jehovah's Witnesses - Correspondence, 1938-1940
Box 27, Folder 1 Jehovah's Witnesses - Documents, 1936-1943
Box 27, Folder 2-5 Jehovah's Witnesses - Drafts, 1938
Box 27, Folder 6 Jehovah's Witnesses - Miscellaneous, 1937-1938
Box 27, Folder 7 Kahanamoku v. Duncan - Documents, 1944
Box 27, Folder 8 Larus & Brothers Co., Inc. - Documents, 1944
Box 27, Folder 9 Lawrence Dennis Case (Sedition) - Miscellaneous, 1943-1944
Box 27, Folder 10 Liverright v. Banton - Documents, 1927
Box 27, Folder 11 Machine Workers v. MacFeezy - Documents, 1937
Box 27, Folder 12 Minneapolis Case (Sedition) - “News from … trial”, 1941
Box 28, Folder 1 Miscellaneous Cases - Documents, 1923-1944
Box 28, Folder 2-8 Miscellaneous Cases - Documents, 1945-1952
Box 29, Folder 1-2 Mooney v. Holohan - Documents & Printed Material, 1934-1935
Box 29, Folder 3 New York State Communist Case - Documents, 1942
Box 29, Folder 4 New York v. E. M. Fuller - Miscellaneous, 1922
Box 29, Folder 5 National Labor Relations Board v. Ford Motor Co. - Miscellaneous, 1937-1940
Box 29, Folder 6 Norman Plotkin Case - Documents, 1940
Box 29, Folder 7 Northwestern Banks of Shoshone Indians v. United States - Documents, 1944
Box 29, Folder 8 People of New York v. Brady et al - Miscellaneous, 1936
Box 29, Folder 9 Peters v. New York City Housing Authority - Documents, 1954-1955
Box 29, Folder 10 Prize Cases - Miscellaneous, 1915
Box 29, Folder 11 Puerto Rico - Brief of the A.C.L.U. as Amicus Curiae, undated
Box 29, Folder 12 Puerto Rico - Correspondence, 1937 March-June
Box 29, Folder 13-14 Puerto Rico - Correspondence, 1937-1940, 1953
Box 30, Folder 1-2 Puerto Rico - Documents, 1952
Box 30, Folder 3 Puerto Rico - Minutes, Committee for Fair Play to, 1938-1939
Box 30, Folder 4 Puerto Rico - Miscellaneous, 1934-1937
Box 30, Folder 5 Puerto Rico - Newspaper Clippings, 1937
Box 30, Folder 6 Puerto Rico - Political Cartoons, 1937
Box 30, Folder 7 Puerto Rico - Reports, 1937
Box 30, Folder 8 Puerto Rico - Stenographic Record, 1937
Box 30, Folder 9 Puerto Rico, University of - Miscellaneous, 1948
Box 30, Folder 10 Quinn v. Industries Development Corp. - Documents, 1943
Box 30, Folder 11 Quinn v. Industries Development Corp. - Correspondence, 1941-1943
Box 31, Folder 1 Railway Mail Association. v. Corsi - Documents, 1944
Box 31, Folder 2 Reiss Cases - Correspondence, 1955-1956
Box 31, Folder 3 Reiss Cases - Documents, 1954-1956
Box 31, Folder 4 Sacco Trust - Miscellaneous, 1928-1943
Box 31, Folder 5 Sanctuary v. Eicher (Sedition) - Petition for Leave to Appear as Amicius Curiae, 1944
Box 31, Folder 6 Scopes Trial - Miscellaneous, 1925-1927
Box 31, Folder 7 Sedition Cases - Correspondence, 1943-1947
Box 31, Folder 8 Senn v. The Lawyers Protective Union - Brief, 1936
Box 31, Folder 9 Shanks Village - Documents, 1947
Box 31, Folder 10 Shanks Village - Orders to Show Cause, 1947
Box 31, Folder 11 Snyder v. City of Milwaukee - Documents, 1939
Box 31, Folder 12 State of California v. Chamber et al - Documents, 1937
Box 31, Folder 13 Strachey Case - Correspondence, 1935-1940
Box 32, Folder 1 Strachey Case - Documents, 1938-1939
Box 32, Folder 2-3 Strachey Case - Exhibits, 1935
Box 32, Folder 4 Strachey Case - Manuscript, undated
Box 32, Folder 5 Strachey Case - Miscellaneous, 1934-1939
Box 32, Folder 6 Terzani Case - Miscellaneous, 1933-1934
Box 32, Folder 7 Trent v. Hunt - Documents, 1941
Box 32, Folder 8 United States of America v. Lehmitz & deSpretter (Sedition) - Miscellaneous, undated
Box 32, Folder 9 United States v. McWilliams (Sedition) - Documents, 1946
Box 32, Folder 10 United States v. Pelley et al - Miscellaneous, undated
Box 32, Folder 11 United States v. Winrod et al (Sedition) - Miscellaneous, 1942-1944
Box 32, Folder 12 Vintondale - Miscellaneous, 1922
Box 32, Folder 13 Welsh et al v. Vinton Colleries Co. et al - Documents, 1922
Box 32, Folder 14 Wilkes-Barre Case - Correspondence, 1935
Box 32, Folder 15 Wilkes-Barre - Documents, 1930, 1935
Box 32, Folder 16 Works Progress Administration - Worker's Dismissal, 1941-1942
Box 32, Folder 17 Series 3, Speeches, 1923-1954
Description: Series 3, Speeches, 1923-1954, is arranged alphabetically by speech and contains the text of various speeches that Hays delivered. Subject matter of speeches is as wide-ranging as the cases he worked on, but are colored with personal anecdotes, human history, and current events. Topics include prejudice, strike breaking, the Reichstag Fire, war and civil liberties, fascism, the Dies Committee, politics and political races, and the status of working women.
Speeches A-F, 1934-1954, undated
Box 33, Folder 1 Speeches H-P, 1932-1947, undated
Box 33, Folder 2 Speeches R-S, 1939-1945, undated
Box 33, Folder 3 Speeches W-Y, 1935-1945, undated
Box 33, Folder 4 Speeches, Untitled, 1923-1952, undated
Box 33, Folder 5-7 Speeches - Materials, 1934-1950
Box 33, Folder 8-9 Series 4, Articles, 1915-1952
Description: Series 4, Articles, 1915-1952, is arranged alphabetically by title and consists of numerous articles and book reviews written by Hays. Several items are original manuscripts and are not dated, nor is there any indication whether they were ever published. The articles pertain to scores of civil liberties issues and demonstrate Hays's persistent willingness to have his liberal perspective made known to the public. Topics include civil liberties, religious freedom, the Sacco and Vanzetti trial, loyalty laws, the Ku Klux Klan, the Scottsboro Seven Trial, the Rosenberg Case, and anti-communism.
Articles - A, 1945
Box 34, Folder 1 Articles - B, 1927
Box 34, Folder 2 Articles - C, 1927-1944
Box 34, Folder 3 Articles - D, 1937-1945
Box 34, Folder 4 Articles - E, 1915-1916
Box 34, Folder 5 Articles - F, 1922-1949
Box 34, Folder 6 Articles - G, 1929
Box 34, Folder 7 Articles - H, 1928-1947
Box 34, Folder 8 Articles - I, 1928-1942
Box 34, Folder 9 Articles - J-K, 1930s
Box 34, Folder 10 Articles - L, 1926-1929
Box 34, Folder 11 Articles - M, 1924-1950
Box 34, Folder 12 Articles - N, 1940
Box 34, Folder 13 Articles - O, 1928
Box 34, Folder 14 Articles - P, 1916-1936
Box 34, Folder 15 Articles - R, 1925-1950
Box 34, Folder 16 Articles - S, 1916-1952
Box 35, Folder 1 Articles - T, undated
Box 35, Folder 2 Articles - U and Untitled, 1922-1948
Box 35, Folder 3 Articles - V, 1939
Box 35, Folder 4 Articles - W, 1918-1934
Box 35, Folder 5 Articles - Y-Z, undated
Box 35, Folder 6 Series 5, Books, undated
Description: Series 5, Books, 1925-1942, is arranged alphabetically by title, and contains final drafts of manuscripts for Hays' books. Included are Let Freedom Ring (an account of civil liberties cases of the twenties), This Talk of Capitalism (which warns against treading upon democracy in the name of America's increasingly popular economic system), Democracy Works (a defense of America's system of government, 1939), and City Lawyer (described above, 1942).
City Lawyer, circa 1942
Box 36, Folder 7-9 City Lawyer, Reviews, Congratulations etc., 1942
Box 36, Folder 1 Democracy Works, circa 1942
Box 36, Folder 2-7 Democracy Works, Misc. & News Clippings, 1938-1939
Box 36, Folder 8 Let Freedom Ring, circa 1925-1929
Box 36, Folder 9-19 Let Freedom Ring, Forward chapters 2-4 - New Edition, circa 1928
Box 37, Folder 1 Let Freedom Ring Reviews, 1928
Box 37, Folder 2 This Talk of Capitalism, undated
Box 37, Folder 3-4 Series 6, News Clippings, 1927-1954
Description: Series 6, News Clippings, 1927-1954, is arranged alphabetically by subject, and details famous cases in which Hays was involved (Scopes, Sacco and Vanzetti, Scottsboro, and others). These clippings are taken from several different media sources, many of which were compiled in scrapbooks by Hays or his staff. The material often features reporting that compares Hays to other contemporary commentators.
Free Press, Free Speech, 1934
Box 37, Folder 5 Harlem Riot, undated
Box 37, Folder 6 Hays, Arthur Garfield - death, 1954
Box 37, Folder 7 Jennings Case, 1937
Box 37, Folder 8 Kentucky Case, 1932
Box 37, Folder 9 La Follette's Presidential Campaign, 1932
Box 37, Folder 10 Mencken, H.L, undated
Box 37, Folder 11 Mikhailovich Case, 1946
Box 37, Folder 12 Miscellaneous, 1944-1953
Box 37, Folder 13-14 Reichstag Trial, 1933
Box 37, Folder 15 Sacco-Vanzetti Case, 1927
Box 37, Folder 16 Scopes Trial, undated
Box 37, Folder 17 Strachey Case, 1935
Box 37, Folder 18 Trial by Prejudice Reviews, 1933
Box 37, Folder 19 Series 7, Alan Hays Material, 1930-1941
Description: Series 7, Alan Hays Material, 1930-1941, arranged alphabetically by case name, contains the casework done by Arthur Garfield Hays's brother Alan in the case of Stanley E. Faithful v. The Daily Mirror in which Faithful sued several newspapers for libel regarding the suspicious nature of his daughter's death.
Correspondence of Alan Hays, 1939-1941
Box 38, Folder 1 Faithful v. Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Miscellaneous, 1935
Box 38, Folder 2 Faithful v. Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Court Papers, 1933-1938
Box 38, Folder 3 Faithful v. Boston Herald & Traveler - Drafts, 1933
Box 38, Folder 4 Faithful v. Daily Mirror - Correspondence, 1933-1935
Box 38, Folder 5 Faithful v. Daily Mirror - Court Papers, 1932-1935
Box 38, Folder 6-7 Faithful v. Daily Mirror - Correspondence, 1936-1940
Box 38, Folder 8-10 Faithful v. Daily Mirror - Court Papers, 1933-1938
Box 39, Folder 1-2 Faithful v. Daily Mirror - Drafts & Proofs, 1934
Box 39, Folder 3 Faithful v. Daily Mirror - Miscellaneous, 1933-1939
Box 39, Folder 4 Faithful v. Daily Mirror - Record on Appeal, 1937
Box 39, Folder 5 Faithful v. Daily Mirror - Witnesses, 1933-1938
Box 39, Folder 6 Faithful v. Daily News - Correspondence, 1932-1936
Box 39, Folder 7 Faithful v. Daily News - Court Papers, 1932-1933
Box 39, Folder 8 Faithful v. Daily News - Court Papers, 1932-1935
Box 40, Folder 1-2 Faithful v. Globe Newspaper Co. - Court Papers, 1933
Box 40, Folder 3 Faithful v. New York American - Court Paper & Misc., 1933-1938
Box 40, Folder 4 Faithful v. New York Evening Journal - Court Paper, 1933-1938
Box 40, Folder 5 Faithful v. New York Times - Correspondence, 1936
Box 40, Folder 6 Faithful v. New York Times - Court Papers, 1933-1935, 1940
Box 40, Folder 7-8 Faithful v. New York Times - Drafts & Miscellaneous, 1933-1940
Box 40, Folder 9 Faithful v. New York Tribune - Court Papers, 1935
Box 40, Folder 10 Faithful v. News Syndicate Co. - Drafts, undated
Box 40, Folder 11 Faithful v. News Syndicate Co. - Miscellaneous, undated
Box 41, Folder 1 Faithful v. Sun Printing - Court Papers, 1933-1936
Box 41, Folder 2-3 Faithful v. Sun Printing Co. - Drafts, 1933-1936
Box 41, Folder 4 Faithful v. Sun Printing Co. - Miscellaneous, 1933-1936
Box 41, Folder 5 Faithful v. Sun Printing Co. & World Telegram - Drafts, 1934
Box 41, Folder 6 Faithful v. World Telegram - Correspondence, 1936
Box 41, Folder 7 Faithful v. World Telegram - Court Papers, 1933-1934
Box 41, Folder 8 Faithful v. World Telegram - Court Papers, 1935-1936
Box 41, Folder 9 Faithful v. World Telegram - Miscellaneous, 1933-1936
Box 41, Folder 10 Faithful Cases - Exhibits, 1930-1937
Box 41, Folder 11 Faithful Cases - Miscellaneous, 1931-1932
Box 41, Folder 12 Series 8, Photographs, 1925-1937
Description: Series 8, Photos, 1925-1935, arranged topically includes photographs of Hays, and people and places related to certain cases in which he was involved, including the Scopes Trial.
General portraits, circa 1920-1950
Box 42 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Emerson Jennings, 1935
Box 42 Faithful case photos, circa 1935
Box 42 Puerto Rico (armed clash) photos, 1937
Box 42 Scopes Trial photos, 1925-1927
Box 42 Series 9, Oversize Materials, undated
Poster with caricatures of the Scopes Trial participants, undated
Cabinet 5 One U.S. map annotated by Hays, undated
Cabinet 5
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