Guide to the Center for Constitutional Rights Records TAM.589
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012
(212) 998-2596
special.collections@nyu.edu
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Collection processed by Rachel Searcy
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on January 24, 2023 using Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Edited by Nicole Greenhouse to reflect additional administrative information and added archived websites Edited by Rachel Mahre to reflect that audio materials are digitized and accessible to patrons , February 2022 , September 2022
Descriptive Summary
| Creator: | Center for Constitutional Rights (New York, N.Y.) |
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| Title: | Center for Constitutional Rights Records |
| Dates [inclusive]: | 1959-2010 |
| Abstract: | The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is a non-profit legal advocacy organization based in New York City. The Center was initially established to provide legal services and financial support to lawyers representing civil rights movement activists in Mississippi, but has since broaded its focus to civil liberties and human rights activism and litigation more generally. This unprocessed collection of records created or collected by CCR consists of correspondence, political ephemera, newspaper clippings, websites, research files, and legal documents, including briefs, motions, and trial transcripts documenting the organization's legal advocacy. |
| Quantity: | 240.5 Linear Feet in 234 record cartons and 13 manuscript boxes |
| Quantity: | 6 websites in 6 archived websites. |
| Location: | Materials in this collection are stored offsite and advance notice is required for their use. Please contact special.collections@nyu.edu at least two business days prior to visiting the library. |
| Language: | Materials are in English. |
| Call Phrase: | TAM.589 |
Historical/Biographical Note
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is a non-profit legal advocacy organization based on New York City. It was founded in 1966 by civil rights lawyers and legal activists, including William Kuntsler, Morton Stavis, Arthur Kinoy, and Ben Smith. The Center was initially established to provide legal services and financial support to lawyers representing civil rights movement activists in Mississippi. Since then, CCR has broadened its focus to civil liberties and human rights activism and litigation more generally, providing legal assistance to a variety of clients, including Guantanamo Bay detainment camp prisoners and victims of racial profiling in the wake of 9/11.
Scope and Content Note
This unprocessed collection of records created or collected by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) consists of correspondence, political ephemera, newspaper clippings, websites, research files, audiovisual and digital media, and legal documents, including briefs, motions, and trial transcripts documenting the organization's legal advocacy.
Arrangement
This collection has not been arranged by an archivist. The order in which these materials were sent to the Tamiment Library has been maintained.
Access Points
Subject Topics
- Civil rights -- United States.
- Legal services -- New York (State) -- New York.
- Lawyers -- Political activity.
- Civil rights -- New York (State) -- New York.
Administrative Information
Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open to researchers with the exception of restricted materials. Restricted materials in this collection include those protected by attorney-client privilege and/or containing personally identifiable information. Restricted materials are located in the following boxes: 67, 143, 174, 179-183, 185-246.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright (and related rights to publicity and privacy) to materials in this collection, created by the Center for Constitutional Rights, was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Center for Constitutional Rights Records; TAM 589; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
To cite the archived website in this collection: Identification of item, date; Center for Constitutional Rights Records; TAM 589; Wayback URL; Repository Name, New York University.
Audiovisual Access Policies and Procedures
Access to audiovisual materials in this collection is available through digitized access copies. Researchers may view an item's original container, but the media themselves are not available for playback because of preservation concerns. Materials that have already been digitized are noted in the collection's finding aid and can be requested in our reading room. To request an access copy, or if you are unsure if an item has been digitized, please contact special.collections@nyu.edu with the collection name, collection number, and a description of the item(s) requested. A staff member will respond to you with further information.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Materials were transferred from New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in 2012; additional materials were also donated in 2012.
http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/home.asp was initially selected by curators and captured through the use of The California Digital Library's Web Archiving Service in 2007 as part of the Other Left Activism Web Archive. http://www.ccrjustice.org/ was added in 2008. http://ccrjustice.org/cases-issue was added in 2009 as part of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp & War Crimes (U.S.) Web Archive. https://ccrjustice.org/home/what-we-do/active-cases was added in 2015. In 2015, these website were migrated to Archive-It. Archive-It uses web crawling technology to capture websites at a scheduled time and displays only an archived copy, from the resulting WARC file, of the website. In 2020, https://www.alecattacks.org/ was added to the Other Left Activism Web Archive. The accession number associated with this website is 2020.032. In December 2020, https://www.foiabasics.org/ was added. The accession number associated with this website is 2021.059. In September 2021, https://docs.google.com/document/d/176Yds1p63Q3iaKilw0luChMzlJhODdiPvF2I4g9eIXo/edit was added. The accession number associated with this website is 2022.014.
Processing Information
This collection has not been arranged by an archivist. Box-level inventories have been imported to provide basic description of the materials.
The box level inventory for the Schomburg Accession in the Finding Aid does not include every legal case found in each box. Please consult the attached document for a complete inventory.
Media inventories may be incomplete.
In 2020 and 2021, additional web archiving descriptive and administrative information was added as well as additional websites to the collection.
Appraisal
Archived websites are made accessible for purposes of education and research. NYU Libraries have given attribution to rights holders when possible; however, due to the nature of archival collections, we are not always able to identify this information.
If you hold the rights to materials in our archived websites that are unattributed, please let us know so that we may maintain accurate information about these materials.
If you are a rights holder and are concerned that you have found material on this website for which you have not granted permission (or is not covered by a copyright exception under US copyright laws), you may request the removal of the material from our site by submitting a notice, with the elements described below, to the special.collections@nyu.edu.
Please include the following in your notice: Identification of the material that you believe to be infringing and information sufficient to permit us to locate the material; your contact information, such as an address, telephone number, and email address; a statement that you are the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed and that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement that the information in the notification is accurate and made under penalty of perjury; and your physical or electronic signature. Upon receiving a notice that includes the details listed above, we will remove the allegedly infringing material from public view while we assess the issues identified in your notice.
Container List
New York Public Library Schomburg Accession
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
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| Box: 1 | Morton Sobell vs. US |
1959-1967 | ||
| Box: 2 | Willie Seals |
1960-1970 | ||
| Box: 3 | Willie Seals v. Alabama |
1961 | ||
| Box: 4 | Council of Federated Organizations |
1964 | ||
| Box: 5 | Kunstler-Kinoy |
1964-1968 | ||
| Box: 6 | State of North Carolina vs. Mae Mallory, et al |
1964-1967 | ||
| Box: 7 | Mississippi v. John Slater, Rupert Crawford, et al |
1961-1965 | ||
| Box: 8 | Misc. Civil Rights cases |
1964-1966 | ||
| Box: 9 | Miscellaneous Files |
1964-1968 | ||
| Box: 10 | Miscellaneous Files (briefs, opinions, etc) |
undated | ||
| Box: 11 | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Challenge |
1965 | ||
| Box: 12 | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Challenge |
1965-1966 | ||
| Box: 13 | Jack Ruby |
1965-1966 | ||
| Box: 14 | Fannie Lou Hamer v. Campbell
|
1966-1969 | ||
| Box: 15 | Miles v. Dixon |
1966 | ||
| Box: 16 | #149 – Baines v. City of Danville
|
1966 | ||
| Box: 17 | #118: Stamler v. Willis
|
1965 | ||
| Box: 18 | H. Rap Brown Louisiana case
|
1967-1970 | ||
| Box: 19 | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party |
undated | ||
| Box: 20 | Fannie Lou Hamer v. Sam Ely
|
1967 | ||
| Box: 21 | U.S. v. Reies Lopez Tijerina |
1967 | ||
| Box: 22 | U.S. v. Reies Lopez Tijerina
|
1967 | ||
| Box: 23 | Julius Hobson v. Civil Service Commission |
1967 | ||
| Box: 24 | Hobson v. Hansen; Powell v. McCormack; Kinoy v. District of Columbia |
undated | ||
| Box: 25 | State of New Jersey vs. George Merritt, et al |
1967-1980 | ||
| Box: 26 | New Jersey vs. Funicello
|
1967 | ||
| Box: 27 | Grand Jury Indictment of John P. Tillman, et al
|
1967 | ||
| Box: 28 | Frederick Brooks v. Nashville, Tennessee
|
1967 | ||
| Box: 29 | #169 – Floyd Nichols v. Vance
|
1967 | ||
| Box: 30 | #159 – Warren v. Grove |
1968 | ||
| Box: 31 | H. Rap Brown
|
1968 | ||
| Box: 32 | Chicago Democratic National Convention
|
1968 | ||
| Box: 33 | US v. Dellinger
|
1968 | ||
| Box: 34 | US v. Dellinger
|
1968-1974 | ||
| Box: 35 | US v. Dellinger, et al
|
1968 | ||
| Box: 36 | US v. Dellinger, et al
|
1968 | ||
| Box: 37 | #271 – US v. Dellinger
|
1968 | ||
| Box: 38 | Anderson v. Sills
|
1968 | ||
| Box: 39 | Ocean Hill-Brownsville
|
1968-1969 | ||
| Box: 40 | Ocean Hill-Brownsville
|
1968-1969 | ||
| Box: 41 | Rev. C. Herbert Oliver v. Bernard Donovan, et al
|
1968 | ||
| Box: 42 | #241 – Irvin Lee "Jack" Dawkins v. William Green, et al
|
1968 | ||
| Box: 43 | State of New Jersey v. Brandon, Merritt, et al
|
1968 | ||
| Box: 44 | New Jersey v. Merritt
|
1968 | ||
| Box: 45 | #179 – Morris Grossner v. Columbia University
|
1968 | ||
| Box: 46 | #251 – US v. Berrigan, et al
|
1968 | ||
| Box: 47 | #7 – Lawrence Gay Liberation Movement vs. University of Kansas
|
1972 | ||
| Box: 48 | Ocean Hill-Brownsville
|
1968 | ||
| Box: 49 | I.S. 201 v. New York City Board of Education
|
1968 | ||
| Box: 50 | Jerry Rubin bureau file
|
1970 | ||
| Box: 51 | US v. Dellinger
|
1969 | ||
| Box: 52 | US v. Dellinger
|
1969 | ||
| Box: 53 | US v. Dellinger
|
1969 | ||
| Box: 54 | US v. Dellinger
|
1969 | ||
| Box: 55 | US v. Dellinger, et al
|
1969-1970 | ||
| Box: 56 | US v. Dellinger, et al
|
1969-1970 | ||
| Box: 57 | Dellinger v. Mitchell
|
1969-1970 | ||
| Box: 58 | US v. Dellinger
|
1969 | ||
| Box: 59 | In the matter of Dellinger
|
1969-1972, 1979-1980 | ||
| Box: 60 | US vs. George Jurich et al
|
1969 | ||
| Box: 61 | #239 – US v. Linda Forrest, Barbara Webster, et al, #240 - US v. Cotton, et al
|
1969 | ||
| Box: 62 | #227 – Texas v. Marjorie Haile, Mark Rudd, et al
|
1969 | ||
| Box: 63 | #252 – Wesley Freeman v. George Schultz, et al
|
1969 | ||
| Box: 64 | COINTELPRO:
|
undated | ||
| Box: 65 | #260 – Katherin Czarnick v. Robert Morgenthau
|
1969-1970 | ||
| Box: 66 | Reies Lopez Tijerina
|
1967 | ||
| Box: 67 | Segall v. Jacobson - Some components RESTRICTED
|
undated | ||
| Box: 68 | H. Rap Brown
|
1970 | ||
| Box: 69 | #299 - George Jackson v. California, #300 - US v. Maynard
|
1970 | ||
| Box: 70 | Eqbal Ahmad
|
1970 | ||
| Box: 71 | Liberation News Service v. James Eastland
|
1970 | ||
| Box: 72 | New Jersey vs. George Merritt
|
1970-1977 | ||
| Box: 73 | U.S. v. Dellinger, et al
|
1970 | ||
| Box: 74 | US v. Dellinger
|
1970-1973 | ||
| Box: 75 | #310 – Parents and Voters v. District 5 in Harlem
|
1970 | ||
| Box: 76 | #322 – Berrigan v. Norton, prison warden
|
1974 | ||
| Box: 77 | Ohio State University cases
|
1970 | ||
| Box: 78 | #1 – Frank W. Oliver v. Edwin Robson, et al
|
1970 | ||
| Box: 79 | #291-A – Jeffrey Segal vs. George Reed, et al, US Board of Parole
|
1970 | ||
| Box: 80 | #293 – US Servicemen's Fund v. James Eastland, et al
|
1970 | ||
| Box: 81 | Eqbal Ahmad, et al
|
1971 | ||
| Box: 82 | U.S. v. Ahmad, et al
|
1971 | ||
| Box: 83 | Attica
|
1971 | ||
| Box: 84 | Attica
|
1971-1972 | ||
| Box: 85 | H. Rap Brown v. USA
|
1972-1973 | ||
| Box: 86 | H. Rap Brown
|
1971-1976 | ||
| Box: 87 | People of New York v. Wallace Baker, Ronald Felder, William Craig and Walter Thomas
|
1971 | ||
| Box: 88 | Judge Bruce Wright v. Police Benevolent Association
|
1971 | ||
| Box: 89 | People v. Cruz
|
1971 | ||
| Box: 90 | Michael Ratner files
|
1971-1973 | ||
| Box: 91 | Monell v. Department of Social Services, New York
|
1971-1981 | ||
| Box: 92 | #339 – US v. Private Scott McNeil
|
1971 | ||
| Box: 93 | #261 – State of New York v. Preston Lay, et al
|
1971 | ||
| Box: 94 | #318 – U.S. Servicemen Fund v. Melvin Laird
|
1970-1971 | ||
| Box: 95 | Mildred F. Brown v. Richard Nixon, et al
|
1971 | ||
| Box: 96 | New York vs. John Hill and Charles Pernasilice
|
1972 | ||
| Box: 97 | US v. Eqbal Ahmad, et al
|
1972 | ||
| Box: 98 | U.S. vs. John Briggs, et al; Briggs v. Goodwin
|
1972-1973 | ||
| Box: 99 | "Gainesville 8"
|
1972 | ||
| Box: 100 | "Gainesville 8" |
1972 | ||
| Box: 101 | VVAW
|
1972-1973 | ||
| Box: 102 | US v. Briggs, et al
|
1972 | ||
| Box: 103 | Wallace v. Kern
|
1972-1974 | ||
| Box: 104 | Wallace v. Kern
|
1972-1974 | ||
| Box: 105 | Wallace v. Kern
|
1972 | ||
| Box: 106 | Wallace v. Kern, et al
|
1972 | ||
| Box: 107 | Grand Jury indictment against Cobleskill demonstrators
|
1972 | ||
| Box: 108 | Kinoy vs. Mitchell
|
1975 | ||
| Box: 109 | #432 – US v. Delfin Ramos
|
1975-1976 | ||
| Box: 110 | US v. Jose Torres and Ruben Vega y Merced.
|
undated | ||
| Box: 111 | WBAI-FM Grand Jury subpoena
|
1973 | ||
| Box: 112 | #354 – People v. Carlos Feliciano
|
1972 | ||
| Box: 113 | H. Rap Brown
|
1973 | ||
| Box: 114 | H. Rap Brown
|
1973 | ||
| Box: 115 | Wallace v. Kern
|
1973-1974 | ||
| Box: 116 | Wallace v. Kern
|
1973-1975 | ||
| Box: 117 | Wallace v. Kern
|
1973 | ||
| Box: 118 | Chicago 7 conspiracy case
|
1973 | ||
| Box: 119 | Chicago 7 conspiracy case
|
1973 | ||
| Box: 120 | Dellinger v. Mitchell
|
1973 | ||
| Box: 121 | VVAW
|
1973 | ||
| Box: 122 | Briggs v. Goodwin
|
1973 | ||
| Box: 123 | US vs. Briggs, Camil, et al
|
1973 | ||
| Box: 124 | Government of the Virgin Islands v. Beaumont Gereau, et al
|
1973 | ||
| Box: 125 | Virgin Islands v. Gereau, et al
|
1973 | ||
| Box: 126 | #404 – Philip and Daniel Berrigan v. Maurice Sigler, Chairman, US Board of Parole,
et al
|
1973 | ||
| Box: 127 | #405 – Kathie Mae Andrews v. Drew Municipal School District
|
1973 | ||
| Box: 128 | U.S. v. Banks and Means
|
1974-1977 | ||
| Box: 129 | US v. Zimmerman
|
1974 | ||
| Box: 130 | Daniel Taylor v. Kentucky Bar Association
|
1974 | ||
| Box: 131 | Arthur F. Turco, Jr. vs. Monroe County Association
|
1974 | ||
| Box: 132 | Arthur Turco v. Monroe County Bar Association
|
1974 | ||
| Box: 133 | Willie Aikens v. I.W. Abel, et al
|
1974 | ||
| Box: 134 | #426 – U.S. v. Allegheny Ludlum Industries
|
1974-1976 | ||
| Box: 135 | #444-A – In Re Burns, et al (BLA Grand Jury)
|
1975 | ||
| Box: 136 | #425 – State of New York v. Danny White
|
1975-1979 | ||
| Box: 137 | Dellinger v. John Mitchell - Briefs
|
1975-1979 | ||
| Box: 138 | Grand Jury cases
|
1975 | ||
| Box: 139 | #463 – In the Matter of Phillip Shinnick
|
1976-1977 | ||
| Box: 140 | Nguyen Da Yen v. Kissinger et al
|
1975-1976 | ||
| Box: 141 | Nguyen Da Yen v. Henry Kissinger
|
1975-1979 | ||
| Box: 142 | Vietnam Babylift Operation
|
1976-1977 | ||
| Box: 143 | RESTRICTED - Vietnam Babylift Operation
|
1976-1977 | ||
| Box: 144 | Carmen Bruno v. Robert McGuire et al
|
1976 | ||
| Box: 145 | Carmen Bruno v. Michael Codd, NYPD
|
1976 | ||
| Box: 146 | Carmen Bruno v. Michael Codd, NYPD
|
1976 | ||
| Box: 147 | Cora McRae v. Joseph Califano
|
1976 | ||
| Box: 148 | Philip Kent Shinnick
|
1976-1977 | ||
| Box: 149 | Roysworth Grant v. Bethlehem Steel Corporation, et al
|
1976-1980 | ||
| Box: 150 | United States v. Union Nacional de Trabajadores
|
1976 | ||
| Box: 151 | Judith Clavir, Stewart Albert, William Kunstler and Margaret Ratner v. Clarence Kelly |
1977 | ||
| Box: 152 | FBI File on William Kunstler. |
undated | ||
| Box: 153 | #501 – In the Matter of Jerry Paul |
1977-1980 | ||
| Box: 154 | Middlesex County Ethics Committee v. Garden State Bar Association, et al |
1978-1982 | ||
| Box: 155 | US v. Rosado |
1978-1982 | ||
| Box: 156 | Cerro Maravilla Grand Jury case |
1978 | ||
| Box: 157 | US v. Bonilla et al |
1979 | ||
| Box: 158 | Hope Punnett v. Carter |
1979 | ||
| Box: 159 | Hope Punnett v. Carter |
1979 | ||
| Box: 160 | Briggs v. Goodwin |
1979-1980 | ||
| Box: 161 | Briggs v. Goodwin |
1979-1980 | ||
| Box: 162 | Briggs v. Goodwin |
1979-1980 | ||
| Box: 163 | Briggs v. Goodwin |
1979-1980 | ||
| Box: 164 | Briggs v. Goodwin |
1979-1980 | ||
| Box: 165 | Briggs v. Goodwin |
1979-1980 | ||
| Box: 166 | Cruz v. Alexander |
1979-1980 | ||
| Box: 167 | Roysworth Grant v. Bethlehem Steel Corporation |
1979 | ||
| Box: 168 | U.S. v. Dellinger |
1979-1981 | ||
| Box: 169 | U.S. v. Dellinger, et al. |
undated | ||
| Box: 170 | US v. Dellinger, et al. |
undated | ||
| Box: 171 | State of New Jersey v. George Merritt, Jr. |
1980 | ||
| Box: 172 | Julius Hobson v. Jerry Wilson, et al |
1982 | ||
| Box: 173 | Julius Hobson v. Jerry Wilson, et al |
1983 | ||
| Box: 174 | RESTRICTED - #278 – William Meacham v. Univ. of Texas Board of Regents |
1969 | ||
| Box: 175 | Fannie Crumsey v. Justice Knights of the Ku Klux Klan |
1980 | ||
| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
| Box: 175 | Audiocassette : cuid36395 | William Church Press Conference
Physical Characteristics and Technical RequirementsDuration: 53 minutes William Church Press Conference
https://aeon.library.nyu.edu/Logon?Action=10&Form=31&Value=http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/ead/tamwag/tam_589.xml&view=xml |
1980 | |
| Box: 175 | Audiocassette : cuid36855 | Comp #31507 - Radiotape on 416 on E. 9th St.
Physical Characteristics and Technical RequirementsDuration: 17 minutes Comp #31507 - Radiotape on 416 on E. 9th St.
https://aeon.library.nyu.edu/Logon?Action=10&Form=31&Value=http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/ead/tamwag/tam_589.xml&view=xml |
April 19, 1980 | |
| Box: 175 | Audiocassette : cuid36856 | Statement of Bill Church / Sgt. Kuykendall
Physical Characteristics and Technical RequirementsDuration: 8 minutes Statement of Bill Church / Sgt. Kuykendall
https://aeon.library.nyu.edu/Logon?Action=10&Form=31&Value=http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/ead/tamwag/tam_589.xml&view=xml
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April 19, 1980 | |
| Box: 175 | Audiocassette : cuid36857 | Statement of Larry Payne
Physical Characteristics and Technical RequirementsDuration: 22 minutes Statement of Larry Payne
https://aeon.library.nyu.edu/Logon?Action=10&Form=31&Value=http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/ead/tamwag/tam_589.xml&view=xml
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April 20, 1980 | |
| Box: 176 | # 151 - Dombrowski v. Sourwine |
1967 | ||
| Box: 177 | Smith v. University of Tennessee |
1969 | ||
| Box: 178 | #383 - US v. Jose Torres Cruz and Ruben Alberta Vega y Merced. |
undated | ||
| Box: 179 | RESTRICTED FILES, Kunstler-Kinoy
Conditions Governing AccessAccess to Box 179 is restricted. |
1964-1970s | ||
| Box: 180 | RESTRICTED - East NY Mental Health Clinic
Conditions Governing AccessAccess to Box 180 is restricted. |
1983 | ||
| Box: 181 | RESTRICTED - East New York Mental Health Clinic
Conditions Governing AccessAccess to Box 181 is restricted. |
1983 | ||
| Box: 182 | RESTRICTED - LAWYERS CORRESPONDENCE RE: MORTON SOBELL, ETC
Conditions Governing AccessAccess to Box 182 is restricted. |
undated | ||
| Box: 183 | RESTRICTED - PATIENT RECORDS - East New York Mental Health Clinic
Conditions Governing AccessAccess to Box 183 is restricted. |
1983 | ||
| Box: 184 | US v. Dellinger |
1969 | ||
| Box: 247 | Bobby Seale - Appeals case |
1969 | ||
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Series: Archived Websites, February 2007-ongoing. 7 websites in 7 archived websites.
Center for Constitutional Rights Archived Website: May 2008-ongoing [https://wayback.archive-it.org/6351/*/http://www.ccrjustice.org/]Center for Constitutional Rights Archived Website: February 2007-March 2016 [https://wayback.archive-it.org/6351/*/http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/home.asp]Center for Constitutional Rights Cases: Illegal Detentions and Guantanamo Archived Website: September 2009-October 2017 [https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://ccrjustice.org/cases-issue]Center for Constitutional Rights Active Cases Archived Website: June 2015-ongoing [https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/https://ccrjustice.org/home/what-we-do/active-cases]ALEC Attacks Archived Website: April 2020 [https://wayback.archive-it.org/6351/*/https://www.alecattacks.org/]FOIA Basics for Activists Archived Website: December 2020 [https://wayback.archive-it.org/6351/*/https://www.foiabasics.org/]If An Agent Knocks Archived Website: September 2021 [https://wayback.archive-it.org/6351/*/https://docs.google.com/document/d/176Yds1p63Q3iaKilw0luChMzlJhODdiPvF2I4g9eIXo/edit]
Scope and Content NoteCapture of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) website began in 2007 at http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/home.asp. The website contained news, press releases, pamphlets, and fact sheets from the organization. It also includes education and outreach information on police brutality, alternatives to incarceration, prison phone contract monopolies, reparations, and the Movement Support Resource Center. Their legal programs in 2007 focused on international human rights, government misconduct, racial and economic justice, September 11, Cuba travel ban, corporate accountability, and Guantánamo Bay. In 2008, the organization's URL changed to http://www.ccrjustice.org/. The website then included a legal glossary, their newsletter and press releases, press about CCR, and their legal docket on issues such as illegal dentention and Guantánamo, surveillance and attacks on dissent, criminal justice and mass incarceration, corporate human rights abuse, government abuse of power, racial, gender, and economic justice, and international law and accountability. In 2015, the website went through another redeisgn and expanded their case load to cases related to abusive immigration practices, corporate human rights abuses, criminalizing disset, discrimatory policiting, drone killings, government surveillance, Guantánamo Bay, LGBTQIA+ persecution, mass incarceration, Muslim profiling, Palestinian solidarity, racial injustice, sexual and gender-based violence, and torture, war crimes, and militarism. The website at the time also highlights the Bertha Justice Institute, an arm of CCR to support early career lawyers and legal workers. In 2015, they also launched their blog, the Daily Outrage. In 2018, CCR launched the Activist Files, a podcast that features stories of activists, lawyers, and artists fighting for justice. The website also shifted to highlighting more ways to get involved with CCR, through internships, fellowships, volunteering, job opportunities, events, fact sheets, reports, client profiles, testimony, and advocacy videos. FOIA Basics for Activists is a resource guide created by the Center for Constitutional Rights to assist activists, organizers, and social movements in filing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to aid their ongoing campaigns and work. It is primarily focused on using FOIA to file requests with federal agencies like the FBI or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). It also includes case studies annotated examples, as well as a PDF of the guide. If An Agent Knocks is a pamphlet created by the Center for Constitutional Rights to to provide advice to activists likely to be targeted by FBI or other federal agents who have a history of targeting radical and progressive movements. This is the 2020 update to the original 1989 guide and includes more information for non-US citizens.
Physical Characteristics and Technical RequirementsDue to technical or privacy issues, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl. Certain file types will not be captured dependent on how they are embedded in the site. Other parts of websites that the crawler has difficulty capturing includes Javascript, streaming content, database-driven content, and highly interactive content. Full-Text searches of archived websites are available at https://archive-it.org/organizations/567.
AccrualsNew site crawls are accrued semiannually. During 2020, crawls were increased to monthly accruals.
AppraisalRobots.txt (a piece of code designed to limit crawler activity within a website) was ignored with the permission of the content owner. Crawl was limited to domains and subdomains of ccrjustice.org in order to remain within the collection scope and data constraints. |
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