MINNESOTA COALITION AGAINST CENSORSHIP (SAINT PAUL, MINN.):

An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society

Manuscripts Collection

Expand/CollapseOVERVIEW

Creator: Minnesota Coalition Against Censorship (Saint Paul, Minn.), creator.
Title:Minnesota Coalition Against Censorship records.
Dates:1975-2010 (bulk 1975-1991).
Language:Materials in English.
Abstract:Records from the Minnesota Coalition Against Censorship (MCAC), the local affiliate of the National Coalition Against Censorship, which focuses on protecting freedom of speech rights, and opposing censorship in libraries, schools, and art. The collection includes: minutes, annual reports, bylaws and financial records; conferences, membership, and policy files; censorship surveys regarding public schools and libraries; and the files of Matthew Stark, the director and secretary for MCAC.
Quantity:4.0 cubic feet (4 boxes).
Location: See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

Expand/CollapseADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Minnesota Coalition Against Censorship (Saint Paul, Minn.). Minnesota Coalition Against Censorship Records. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession number: 17,752

Processing Information:

Processed by: Leif Kopietz, December 2019

Catalog ID number: 9989769139704294

Provenance:

Records were organized, maintained, and donated by Matthew Stark, the former secretary and director for the Minnesota Coalition Against Censorship.


Return to top

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

LocationBox
152.H.5.1B1Annual reports, 1981-1988.
Articles of incorporation, March-April 1982.
Booklet, undated.
Bylaws:
August 25, 1983.
January 10, 1985.
December 10, 1987.
Constitution, undated.
Bylaw amendments, 1983-1987. 7 folders.
Censorship News, etc., 1983-1987.
Legal battles and miscellaneous, undated, 1979, 1988.
Censorship News mailing list, 1983.
Constitution and bylaws adopted, October 1, 1981.
Constitution, August 23, 1978.
Directory, March 1986-December 1987.
Goals and objectives, 1979-1980.
Minutes, 1978-1991. 8 folders.
Policy manual, 1986.
Money owed to Minnesota Civil Liberties Union by Minnesota Coalition Against Censorship, 1984-1985.
Secretary's hours for Minnesota Coalition Against Censorship, 1983-1987.
Financial statements (audited), 1982.
Finances 501 (c)(3), 1983-1984.
Minnesota tax exemption number, April 1984.
Certificate of exempt status, Minnesota, 1984.
Employer's quarterly federal tax return, June 1984.
Considerations for incorporation of Minnesota Coalition Against Censorship, 1982.
Finances, 1983-1990. 12 folders.
Minnesota Coalition Against Censorship Clearinghouse, November 19, 1980.
Archives consideration file, 1981.
Censorship conferences, 1978-1980.
Application forms, 1980.
Addresses, 1978-1981.
Censorship pamphlet, 1984-1985.
Agendas, 1978-1990. 3 folders.
Archives correspondence, 1980-1981.
LocationBox
152.H.5.2F2Minnesota School Board Association letter, December 6, 1982.
Yearbook censoring-Ann Landers, undated.
Free Access to Libraries for Minors, undated.
High school newspaper policies, October 8, 1982.
Funding - Selection Policy Review Project, early 1980s.
Minneapolis Public Schools policies, undated.
Membership mailing list, 1985.
Mailing of yellow pamphlet, 1985.
Request to use organizations' names-outlines, 1982-1985.
General, 1978-1985. 7 folders.
Includes minutes; correspondence; reports; memoranda; and Board, member, and delegate lists.
Banned Book Week, 1985.
Braille, 1985.
Statewide textbook selection, March 5, 1984.
Bystrom v. Fridley High School, 1985.
"The Lottery," and the Forest Lake School Board, 1978.
State High School League lobbying, March 21, 1984.
Hubert Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota television debate, October 1984.
Owatonna Public School video challenge, 1986.
Windows On Our World banning, North St. Paul and Maplewood case study, undated.
Motion 68a - St. Cloud Public Library Case, October-November 1982.
Winona State University, Theatre Department, 1984.
Hopkins School censorship issues, August 28, 1984.
MacKinnon pornography ordinance, 1983-1984.
Sports Illustrated issue, February 11, 1985.
Expurgated Romeo and Juliet, 1984.
University of Minnesota Jamieson information issue-amicus and lobby, November 11, 1988.
Mora High School censorship, 1989.
Minnesota Library Media Circuit, September 20, 1984.
State College bookstore censorship, June 13, 1985.
Pequot Lakes High School yearbook, May-July 1985.
Braille copies of Playboy, July 25, 1985.
Stillwater High School yearbook, 1986.
Coon Rapids, Hawkins Case, December 10, 1987.
Fridley High School censorship case, June 13, 1985.
Woodbury Public Library censorship, 1990.
Urban Guerrillas, Highland Park High School case, March 1985.
Mankato Cable Television case, August 14, 1986.
3b. Have an attorney, 1983-1985.
Miscellaneous censorship materials, 1981.
Elementary and Secondary Education Section (ESES), undated.
Intellectual Committee of the American Library Association, April 12, 1982.
Beverly McCord Shaw statement-censorship, undated.
"Official Student and Publications and the Forum Theory" handout, undated.
Selection policies and reconsideration procedures, undated.
Selection policies - other organizations, 1980-1981.
News releases, 1978-1980.
Speakers Bureau, June 1979.
Outcome based education, undated.
Guest speaker policy, 1989.
Nominating Committee, October 14, 1982.
Clearinghouse-articles that have been sent out, March 4, 1983.
Minnesota Coalition Against Censorship Clearinghouse, 1980-1983.
Censorship Conference, April 21, 1979. 2 folders.
Minnesota Coalition Against Censorship Conference, April 26, 1980. 2 folders.
Censorship Conference, January 28-30, 1983.
Annual banquet, September 10, 1984.
Special meeting of organization representatives, September 12, 1984.
Censorship workshops, 1984.
Minnesota Coalition Against Censorship Conference, May 4, 1985. 2 folders.
Minnesota Coalition Against Censorship Conference, November 2, 1985.
Minnesota Coalition Against Censorship workshop, November 2, 1985.
Fighting and Winning Seminar, November 2, 1985.
Annual banquet, 1985, 1986. 2 folders.
Minnesota Coalition Against Censorship Conference, September 19, 1987.
Annual banquet, November 12, 1987.
Minnesota Coalition Against Censorship Conference, November 14, 1987.
Annual banquet, September 22, 1988.
Minnesota Coalition Against Censorship Conference, November 19, 1988.
Annual banquet, 1989, 1990. 2 folders.
LocationBox
152.H.5.3B3Annual banquet, September 22, 1993.
Membership:
Consideration for recruitment, 1978, 1982.
Current membership and addresses, 1989.
New members, 1982.
Membership rejections, 1978.
Old membership lists, 1978-1989.
Membership yearly file update forms, 1982.
American Association of University Women, 1979, 1982, 1987, 1990. 2 folders.
Minnesota Alliance for Arts in Education, July-August 1983.
American Association of University Professors, 1978, 1982.
American Jewish Committee, 1979-1982.
Art Educators of Minnesota, 1981, 1984.
Inter-faculty Organization, 1982.
Journalism Advisors of Minnesota, 1982.
Minnesota Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 1983.
Minnesota Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1982-1983.
Minnesota Association of Law Libraries, 1978-1979.
Minnesota Citizens for the Arts, 1982, 1987.
Minnesota Civil Liberties Union, 1978.
Minnesota Congress of Parents, Teachers, and Students, 1982, 1984.
Minnesota Council for the Social Studies, 1978, 1982.
Minnesota Council of Teachers of English, 1978, 1982.
Minnesota Education Association, 1982, 1984.
Minnesota Educational Media Organization, 1978, 1982.
Minnesota Elementary Principals' Association, 1979, 1982.
Minnesota Federation of Teachers, 1979, 1982.
Minnesota Health Sciences Library Association, 1978, 1982.
Minnesota Library Association, 1978, 1982.
Minnesota Personnel and Guidance Association, 1979, 1984.
Minnesota Reading Association, 1979, 1982.
Minnesota Science Teachers Association, 1981-1984.
National Conference of Christians and Jews, 1978, 1984.
National Council of Jewish Women, 1978-1979.
Minnesota Chapter: National School Public Relations Association, 1982-1983.
Newspaper Guild of the Twin Cities, 1979, 1982.
Press Women of Minnesota, 1982.
Minnesota Congress of Parents, Teachers, and Students, 1987.
Society of Professional Journalists, 1978, 1983.
Twin Cities Black Journalists, 1980, 1987.
WARM, 1987.
Women's Art Registry of Minnesota, 1982.
Wisconsin Intellectual Freedom Coalition, 1980.
Speech Communication Association, undated.
Southern California Coalition for Intellectual Freedom, 1979.
National Coalition Against Censorship, 1977, 1982.
Iowa Intellectual Freedom Foundation, 1982-1983.
Freedom to Read Foundation, 1987.
Policy files:
Model selection and re-evaluation policy, 1991.
Investigation procedure, undated.
Recommended steps in "Request for Assistance" process, undated.
Sample process for lobbying or amicus litigation, 1982-1986.
Statement of a policy on secondary school student publications, 1983-1984.
State Arts Board policy, August 25, 1983.
Disruption of public speeches, Jeane Kirkpatrick and University of Minnesota, policy, November 17, 1983.
"A Policy On Freedom To Teach, To Learn, and To Express Ideas," 1983-1985.
"Freedom to Read" statement, 1981.
Guest speakers and public schools, 1989.
Policy on school library materials, 1975-1977.
Censorship and State Board of Education, 1981-1982.
St. Peter Communicator, 1980-1982.
High school press policies, undated.
Minnesota Coalition Against Censorship yearbooks, 1988.
Non-member correspondence, 1978-1985.
Minnesota State Fair, censorship of literature, March 12, 1979.
State sales tax on books and magazines, April 11, 1985.
Pagitt v. Independent School District No. 270, 1984-1985.
Organizational approval of amicus curiae, 1983-1984.
Showing of "Salo" at the Bell Theater, University of Minnesota, June 1981.
Jeane Kirkpatrick and Minnesota Coalition Against Censorship, 1983.
Index, July 1990.
Miscellaneous censorship articles and reports, 1980s.
"Mediography" of AV resources, 1984.
"Liberal" censors, September 22, 1983.
Yearbooks cases (out-of-state), December 23, 1988.
Committee Against Censorship (Alabama), 1986.
Religious Censors' material, 1984.
Textbook debate, 1986.
Journalist ethics, 1985.
Washington Court Case, Fraser, 1986.
Meese Commission, 1986.
Religious Magazine Star, March 22, 1979.
Memoranda from M. Ryweck regarding Pico v. Island Trees Union School District, September 7, 1979.
The New Right, undated.
Interviews, 2009.
Matthew Stark, censorship, 1983-1988, 2010.
Interview of Matthew Stark by Marti Zins regarding MCAC and censorship, and other miscellaneous interviews, undated, 2007-2008. 3 audiocassettes.
Textbooks, 1988-1990.
Miscellaneous correspondence and committee minutes, 1978-1992.
Activities list, 1981-1982.
Minnesota Coalition Against Censorship amicus briefs, outlines, undated, 1981.
Minnesota Coalition Against Censorship, amicus brief, Minneapolis Tribune case, 1982.
Amicus contracts, undated.
The Alabama school textbook decision, 1987.
Cloning the Minnesota Coalition Against Censorship, 1978-1993.
College campus, June 23, 1990.
Data privacy bill, May 11, 1981.
Disrupting speeches, 1983-1988.
Elk River School District case, February 10, 1983.
Father Christmas, Lakeland-Afton School, Stillwater, July 1980.
Follet Library Book Company newsletter censorship article, June 1979.
Forrest Lake and Education Association, November 1978.
Hatch Amendment, 1985.
LocationBox
152.H.5.4F4Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier, 1988.
Library: Early Childhood Family Education Program, 1990-1991.
Media, 1979-1993.
Censorship-Meese Commission, 1986-1987.
Meese Petition Campaign, 1986.
Minneapolis Censorship Case - Stark , et al., 1982.
Minnetonka picketing ordinance, 1986-1988.
Miscellaneous cases, 1981-1991.
Obscenity bill, February-March 1980.
Old Gold advertisement, 1979.
Peck v. Minneapolis School Board, November 1983.
The Progressive article - "Censorship rampant," undated.
Delegates to Minnesota Coalition Against Censorship, Robertson et al. v. Anderson et al., 1983.
Newspaper articles and news letters on school book censorship, 1979, 1983-1992.
Selective chronology of American Library censorship and events that affected it, 1978, 1983.
South St. Paul Conservatory, 1979.
Southwest State College issues, May-June 1982.
Student rights, 1986.
Teachers lending materials to students, 1979-1980.
Tennessee court case: Fundamentalist families win suit over textbooks, 1986-1987.
Virgil v. School Board of Columbia County, February 14, 1989.
Art censorship, September 1989.
Censorship-Cory Bystrom, 1989. 2 folders.
Censorship surveys, 1983-1984.
Censorship and government funding, 1979-1981.
Library censorship, 1970s-1980s.
Censorship and public broadcasting, undated.
School censorship, 1970s-1980s.
Miscellaneous, 1990-1991.

Expand/CollapseRELATED MATERIALS

Additional materials related to the topic of censorship and records related to Matthew Stark can be found in the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota Records in the manuscripts collection of the Minnesota Historical Society.

Return to top

Expand/CollapseCATALOG HEADINGS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:
Censorship -- Minnesota.
Civil rights -- Minnesota.
Freedom of speech -- Minnesota.
Obscenity (Law) -- Minnesota.
Academic freedom -- Minnesota.
Libraries -- Censorship.
Schools -- Censorship.
Artists -- Censorship.
Religion -- Censorship.
Persons:
Stark, Matthew, author.
Organizations:
National Coalition against Censorship (U.S.)
American Civil Liberties Union. Minnesota Branch.
Document Types:
Audiocassettes.

Return to top

To search within this finding aid,
expand all and use 'ctrl+f' (PC)
or 'cmd+f' (Mac)

Overview
Administrative Info
Detailed Description
Related Material
Catalog Headings
Finding Aids, A-Z
New Finding Aids
Search Library & Archives Catalog
Search Collections
Library FAQ
Copy Services
Research Services
Take-Down Procedure
Library Facebook
Collections Management Toolkit