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Displaying 19 Finding Aids
Title
- Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities mass meetings investigation files
Series Number
- L0027
Summary
- This series contains reports compiled by investigative staff of the Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities (known as the "Lusk Committee for its chairman Clayton R. Lusk) while attending mass meetings of suspected radical groups in New York City. Information includes date of meeting; time; sponsoring organization; attendance; ethnic makeup and political orientation of the audience; names of radical suspects in attendance; and a summary of the meeting's proceedings.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Finnish Information Bureau seized files
Series Number
- L0033
Summary
- The Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities, known as the "Lusk Committee" for its chairman Clayton R. Lusk, seized these records in raids of the Finnish Information Bureau, a propaganda office set up in the United States by the exiled Red Government of Finland. Records include correspondence, texts of speeches, and articles from American and Finnish newspapers and journals. Records pertain to alleged atrocities committed by the White government in Finland and to events occurring in Russia during the period.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Correspondence and administrative files
Series Number
- L0040
Summary
- This series consists of correspondence between Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities members, staff, and investigators relating to the committee's objective to gather information and evidence about suspected radical groups and individuals. Additional documentation of the body, known as the "Lusk Committee" for its chairman Clayton R. Lusk, includes memorandums, expense records, employment applications, and reports on the use of committee investigators.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Joint Legislative Committee on Charitable and Philanthropic Agencies and Organizations report
Series Number
- A0181
Summary
- This is the second report produced by the Joint Legislative Committee on Charitable and Philanthropic Agencies and Organizations. It focused on clandestine communist influence in charitable organizations. The Civil Rights Congress and the American Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born were analyzed as examples.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee on Charitable and Philanthropic Agencies and Organizations
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Suspected radical organizations seized files
Series Number
- L0029
Summary
- The Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities (known as the "Lusk Committee for its chairman Clayton R. Lusk) seized these records during raids on suspected radical organizations including the Communist Party, the Rand School, the Socialist Party Left Wing Section, and the Workers Defense Unions. Records include correspondence, meeting minutes, organization by-laws, membership lists, receipts, reports, pamphlets, and published articles relating to the philosophy, organization, membership, publications, and activities of both the national organizations and their local branches in New York.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities Rand School seized files
Series Number
- L0028
Summary
- The Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities (known as the "Lusk Committee" for its chairman Clayton R. Lusk) seized these records in raids on the Rand School of Social Science in New York City. The committee tried unsuccessfully to use the records to revoke the charter of the American Socialist Society, the Rand School's parent organization. Records include correspondence, bulletins, and lists relating to home study courses, lectures, publications, and school activities. The records also include material relating to political and organizational activities of the Socialist Party.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Industrial Workers of the World seized files
Series Number
- L0030
Summary
- This series contains records seized during a raid on the New York City headquarters of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Records include applications for IWW membership, correspondence, minutes of district and national meetings, speeches, lists of IWW contributors, reports, and bulletins. The series includes reports, meeting minutes, and other records of the activities in particular of the Construction Workers Union, the Marine Transport Workers Union, and the Metal and Machinery Workers Union.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Russian Soviet Bureau seized files
Series Number
- L0032
Summary
- The Russian Soviet Bureau was set up by the Bolshevik government to act as its representative in the United States. These files, seized in raids by the Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities (known as the "Lusk Committee" for its Chairman Clayton R. Lusk) contain information on the activities of the bureau, correspondence between bureau head Ludwig C.A.K. Martens and bureau contacts, mailing lists of supporters and companies doing business with the Russian government, and transcripts of lectures given by Socialist supporters.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities hearing testimony and executive session transcripts
Series Number
- L0026
Summary
- The series consists of testimony related to an investigation of individuals and organizations suspected of violating the State's criminal anarchy law. The majority of the testimony relates to organizing activity and publications aimed at overthrowing the United States government and replacing it with a Socialist government. Witnesses included the Attorney General his staff, state and local police; local district attorneys; foreign language translators; and individuals familiar with conditions within Russia or with immigrant agencies.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- State Police non-criminal investigation case files
Series Number
- A0795
Summary
- This series consists of investigation files of non-criminal activity generated by the New York State Police Special Services Unit (known before 1970 as the Criminal and Subversives Section) as it examined organizations and individuals with supposed subversive or radical connections. The files contain police investigation reports, related correspondence and intra-agency communications, index cards summarizing known affiliations or previous investigations of individuals or groups, and background material pertinent to each case.
Creator
- New York (State). Bureau of Criminal Investigation. Special Services
Access Restrictions
- Restricted: Boxes 3-5, 19-24, and 43-47 contain Department of Correction and FBI "rap sheets" that are exempt from disclosure under state and federal law.
- Restricted: Some files contain information that is exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Law, including but not limited to the exemptions to protect personal privacy and to protect the identity of confidential informants.
Title
- Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities investigation files
Series Number
- L0038
Summary
- This series contains correspondence, memorandums, and reports on individuals and organizations investigated by the Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities, known as the "Lusk Committee" for its chairman Clayton R. Lusk. The records pertain to meetings, organizational activities, and educational programs of the Russian Soviet Bureau, the Socialist Party, the Bolsheviks, the Niagara Frontier Defense League, and other groups and organizations.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities investigation subject files
Series Number
- L0039
Summary
- This series of records generated or collected by the committee, known as the "Lusk Committee" for its chairman Clayton R. Lusk, includes correspondence, pamphlets, leaflets, testimony, news clippings, and other records on individuals and organizations. Topics center on anarchism, birth control, African-American activities, the 1919 Steel Strike, and the investigation of Socialist Party members elected to the State Assembly.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (New York)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Legal papers relating to searches and prosecutions of suspected radical individuals and organizations
Series Number
- L0037
Summary
- This series contains affidavits, orders, briefs, search warrants, notes of trials, correspondence, and other records produced or collected by the Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities, known as the "Lusk Committee," for its chairman Clayton R. Lusk. The records pertain to charges brought against the many individuals and organizations by the Committee. The majority relate to the Rand School, the Communist Party of America, and the Russian Soviet Bureau.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities newspaper clippings files
Series Number
- L0035
Summary
- This series consists of newspaper articles and editorials on topics such as labor, socialism, radicalism, immigration, and unrest in the United States. The clippings were compiled by the Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities, known as the "Lusk Committee" for its chairman Clayton R. Lusk, and document several thousand events and activities involving individuals and organizations suspected of radical activity in New York State, the United States, and the world.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Draft report file
Series Number
- L0034
Summary
- This series consists of draft and final versions of the four-volume published report, Revolutionary Radicalism, submitted by the Committee to the New York State Senate in April 1920. The report is an exhaustive account of the Committee's investigations with extensive information on suspected radical organizations active in New York, the United States, and throughout the world. Many of the documents found in other record series of the Committee are published in the final report.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities suspected radical propaganda file
Series Number
- L0036
Summary
- As part of its investigation, the Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities (known as the "Lusk Committee" for its chairman Clayton R. Lusk) collected a large quantity of material published in Europe and the United States. These publications (mostly pamphlets) relate to individuals and organizations involved with organized labor, Socialism, Bolshevism, and other movements suspected of radical activities. English and foreign language publications are included in the series.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Investigation files of the Rapp-Coudert Committee
Series Number
- L0260
Summary
- The Rapp-Coudert Committee was charged with investigating individuals and organizations with suspected radical ties in New York City public schools and colleges. This series consists of the Committee's investigation files. Typical contents include correspondence; interview notes and hearing transcripts; minutes; and copies of Communist, anti-war, and civil liberties publications collected by the Committee during the course of investigations. Many files contain extensive notes on individuals under investigation, and include documentation on other persons with suspected ties to Communism.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee on the State Education System
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities New York City maps outlining concentrations of ethnic groups
Series Number
- L0041
Summary
- This series consists of two annotated print maps of New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn, the western part of the borough of Bronx, and a small portion of the borough of Queens, produced by staff of the Lusk Committee in furtherance of its objective to gather information about suspected radical groups in New York State. The maps are colored to show sections where various ethnic and racial populations were concentrated in 1919; numbers are used to show locations of both suspected radical group meetings and radical newspapers published in the city.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities Archibald Stevenson files
Series Number
- L0042
Summary
- As the Lusk Committee's chief investigator, Stevenson's records document investigations of attempts to 'Americanize' immigrants in public schools; religious, business and commerce organizations; civic groups; and the National Security League in New York. Records include pamphlets, booklets, and annual reports. Also included are drafts of Lusk Committee final reports; examinations of measures used to combat the spread of seditious thought; curriculum and certification requirements for classes in Americanization and English; and synopses of comments from religious, educational, and community leaders.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.