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New York State Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities Investigation Subject Files


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Overview of the Records

Repository:

New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230

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.
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Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities investigation subject files
Quantity:

14 cubic feet

28 microfilm rolls 35mm

Inclusive Dates:
1919-1920
Series Number:
L0039

Arrangement

Alphabetical by subject.

Scope and Content Note

This series contains material on various topics of concern to the committee which were collected as part of their investigation into suspected radical groups and individuals. These records include correspondence, testimony, investigative reports, copies of legislation, journal articles, pamphlets, broadsides, clippings, photographs, and other material.

Topics with the most material in the records include: birth control (with significant amounts of material about Margaret Sanger), events in India and Ireland, anti-seditious legislation in other states, African-American activities, the 1919 Steel Strike and 1920 Railroad Strike, the trial of Socialist members of the New York State Assembly, and various anti-radical activities of the United States government. Photographs of many socialists are included.

Alternate Formats Available

Microfilm is available at the New York State Archives.

Custodial History

This series was originally accessioned as box 7 of old collection #281, accessions -236 and -237.

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

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Detailed Description

Dates Contents Box Folder

Accretion: L0039-78
All-Russian Zemsky Union; 1 1
American Defense Society; 1 2
Americanization; 1 3
Anarchism; 1 4
Birth Control; 1 5
Church of the Ascension; 1 6
Claessens, August; 1 7
Committee of 48; 1 8
DeWitt, Samuel; 1 9
Holmes, John Haynes; 1 10
Immigration; 1 11
India; 1 12
International Labor News Service; 1 13
Irish Affairs; 1 14
Korea; 1 15
Laws of Other States; 1 16
National Civic Federation; 1 17
Negro Activities; 1 18
New York City Police Department; 1 19
1920 New York State Assembly. Trial of Socialists, 1920 1 20
Orr, Samuel; 1 21
People's Freedom Union; 1 22
Radicalism, Opponents of; 1 23
Radical Poetry; 1 34
Radical Writings, unidentified; 1 25
Radicals, Photographs and Portraits; 1 26
1920 Railroad Strike, 1920 1 27
Russia; 1 28
Russian Information Bureau in the United States; 1 29
Socialism; 1 30
Solomon, Charles; 1 31
Spargo, John; 1 32
1919 "Steel Strike, 1919" 1 33
Theatre; 1 34
United Kingdom; 1 35
U.S. Department of Justice; 1 36
U.S. Department of Labor; 1 37
U.S. Military Intelligence; 1 38
U.S. Senate. Overman Investigation; 1 39
Box of Loose Rolls 2
Index Book, 1755-1847 (Volume) 3