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The Board of Directors subseries (14.8 linear feet) contains mailings from the National Office to the Board, minutes of Board meetings, and correspondence with individual Board members arranged chronologically. From 1975 to 1983, ACLU Associate Director Alan Reitman's pre-Board meeting letter to the president of the Board can be found occasionally. These letters explain the agenda in greater detail to assist the president in facilitating the meeting.
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Norman Dorsen was the ACLU president from 1976 to 1990, though prior to his presidency, he had been extremely active within the ACLU, serving as a board member and also as general counsel from 1969-1976. Additionally, Dorsen was on the New York University Law School faculty and director of the Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program at New York University.
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This subseries (0.84 linear feet) concerns the discussion and reaction of the board, ACLU members, and individuals to the ouster of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, a member of the Communist Party, from the Board of Directors in 1940. The Board passed a resolution that prohibited anyone who supported totalitarian regimes from holding official positions within the ACLU. The resolution created heated debate within the ACLU as some claimed the ACLU was infringing on Flynn's freedom of speech by endorsing the resolution. The resolution was rescinded in 1968 and she won posthumous reinstatement to the board in 1976. The records consist of minutes, memoranda, correspondence and printed materials. See also the Policies subseries for additional materials on this controversy and the pre-1947 microfilmed records.