New York State Division of Human Rights Discrimination Case Files

Numerical by case number.

10409-96: Chronological and then by numerical case number.

This body was created pursuant to Chapter 118 of the Laws of 1945 and is empowered to prevent and eliminate practices of discrimination because of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, marital status, or physical disability. The Division is empowered to utilize the services of all state governmental departments and agencies, adopt and promulgate rules and regulations, test, investigate, and pass upon complaints of discrimination, hold hearings, subpoena witnesses, grant compensatory damages and apply for court injunctions to prevent frustration of rulings of the commissioner.

10409-83, 1951-1968, 61 cubic feet: These files are the case files compiled by the division while investigating discrimination complaints. The files consist of correspondence, memoranda, publications, decisions, and copies of petitions, complaints, contracts, and agreements.

10409-84, 1967-1968, 124 cubic feet: This accession is a continuation of 10409-83. The two accessions overlap in dates. Series 10409-83 contains sampled files only for cases which were brought to a public hearing and/or were reported in the Law Bulletin of the Division of Human Rights. Series 10409-84 contains all remaining cases for the calendar years 1967-1968. Almost all case files for the years 1945-1950 were accidentally destroyed in 1982. Also destroyed were the non-sampled files for the years 1951-1966. For the years 1967-1968 the case numbers overlap.

10409-85, 1946-1967, 24 cubic feet: This accession consists of files for cases which were appealed to civil courts or which were notable for the legal precedents they set. There are many hearing transcripts and exhibits in these files. There is one case from 1946, but all the rest date from 1952-1957 and 1966-1967. All other surviving case files prior to 1967 are found in Series 10409-83.

Letter from Local 1A of the International Alliance of Theaterical State Employees (IATSE) union to the New York State Commission Against Discrimination, 1955 has been digitized and is available in State Archives Digital Collections.

21909Series 21909, New York State Division of Human Rights Case Files (Litigated), contains related records.

Container lists for accretions to this series are available at the repository except as noted below.

10409-96: Transfer lists are available at the repository.

10409-96: After retention in inactive storage at the State Records Center, custody of these records was transferred (under a valid Records Disposition Authorization) to the State Archives on 11/28/94 and 1/5/95. Records appearing on multiple transfer lists remain at the State Records Center until space becomes available at the Archives.

10409-96: This accretion includes records from transfer lists 740004, 750001, 780002, 780004, 780006, 790002, 800002, 810002, 810004, 810006, 810008, 810010, 820003, 820004, 820009, 820012, 820017, 820018, 820021, 820022, 820025, 820027, 820036, 830002, 830004, 840001, 840003, 850007, 860001, 860002, 860003, 860011, 890016, 910010, 840005, and 910017.

Restricted in part. Disclosable documents include the initial complaint and the final determination. Other documents will be disclosed as permitted by the New York State Freedom of Information Law (Public Officers Law Art. 6).