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  • Creator Names Alliance to End Repression.
  • Title Alliance to End Repression records [manuscript], 1969-1986.
  • Physical description
    • 14 linear ft. (34 boxes)
    • 3 sound recordings.
  • Access and usage restrictions
    • A few folders from box 21 are closed to researchers.
    • For listening purposes, it is necessary to use a copy, not the original (and to have a listening copy made if one is not available).
  • Collection summary Correspondence, memos, announcements, meeting minutes, topical files, and constituent organization files of the Chicago-based Alliance to End Repression, a fifty-member consortium of churches, labor unions, human relations, and community groups, concerned with issues such as opposition to the death penalty, protection of prisoners' rights, gay rights, constitutional rights, and opposition to police surveillance for political purposes. Includes files on the Alliance's lawsuit, 1974-1981, against the Chicago Police Department's Red Squad, in which the Alliance sought to halt surveillance of persons engaging in leftist political activities rather than crimes. Collection includes many mailings and other materials from similar organizations in Chicago and across the nation.
  • Finding Aids Note Descriptive inventory available online.
  • Acquisition information Gift through Richard L. Criley, Rachel Rosen DeGolia, and the offices of the Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights (M1973.0056, M1975.0005, M1975.0055?, M1976.0026, M1981.0019).
  • Location of Other Archival Materials Note
    • Related materials at Chicago History Museum, Research Center, include the Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights records; the Cook County Special Bail Project records; the Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty records; and files of other organizations that cooperated with the Alliance, as well as publications cataloged separately.
    • As a result of the Red Squad lawsuit, a collection known as the "Chicago Police Department Red Squad and related records" was deposited at Chicago History Museum according to a court order issued by Judge Susan Getzendanner in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The court order imposes restrictions on access and use of the Red Squad files. Ask staff for details.
    • In addition there is a small, open collection named "Red Squad Chicago court case collection of open files [manuscript], 1976-1993," that relates to court proceedings.
  • Names
    • Alliance to End Repression Archives.
    • Criley, Richard L.
    • DeGolia, Rachel Rosen.
    • Deppe, Martin.
    • Gutman, Richard M. (Richard Martin)
    • Hill, John.
    • Alliance to End Repression. Lawsuit Support Committee.
    • Chicago (Ill.). Police Department. Intelligence Section.
    • Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights.
    • Citizens Alert (Organization)
    • Citizens Committee on the Media (Chicago, Ill.)
    • Cook County Special Bail Project (Ill.)
    • Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty.
    • Illinois Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
    • Illinois Justice Foundation.
    • Illinois Prisons and Jails Project.
    • United Methodist Church (U.S.). Northern Illinois Conference.
    • Criley, Richard L.
    • DeGolia, Rachel Rosen
    • Deppe, Martin.
    • Gutman, Richard M. (Richard Martin)
    • Hill, John.
    • Chicago (Ill.). Police Department.
    • Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights.
    • Citizens Alert (Organization)
    • Citizens Committee on the Media (Chicago, Ill.)
    • Cook County Special Bail Project (Ill.)
    • Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty.
    • Illinois Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
    • Illinois Justice Foundation.
    • Illinois Prisons and Jails Project.
    • United Methodist Church (U.S.). Northern Illinois Conference.
  • Subjects
    • Bail Illinois Cook County 20th century.
    • Civil rights Illinois Chicago 20th century.
    • Criminal investigation Illinois Chicago 20th century.
    • Criminal justice, Administration of Illinois 20th century.
    • Freedom of information 20th century.
    • Gay rights Illinois Chicago 20th century.
    • Grand jury Illinois 20th century.
    • Human rights 20th century.
    • Juvenile courts Illinois Cook County 20th century.
    • Liberty 20th century.
    • Police Complaints against Illinois Chicago 20th century.
    • Police patrol United States Surveillance operations 20th century.
    • Prison reformers Illinois 20th century.
    • Prisoners Illinois Cook County 20th century.
    • Radicalism Illinois Chicago 20th century.
    • Right and left (Political science)
    • Trials (Political crimes and offenses) Illinois Chicago 20th century.
  • Geographic coverage
    • Chicago (Ill.) Politics and government 1951-
    • Cairo (Ill.) Riots, 1967.
    • Cairo (Ill.) Race relations 20th century.
  • Genre
    • Announcements. aat
    • Audiocassettes. aat
    • Broadsides. aat
    • Correspondence. aat
    • Minutes. aat
    • Reports. aat
  • Geographic name United States Illinois Cook County Chicago.
  • Finding aid URL Finding aid available online http://chsmedia.org/media/fa/fa/M-A/AER-inv.htm