Includes years from 1941 to 1967, but the bulk of the material deals with the years 1953-1959. This first subseries is comprised of the St. Louis office files of the St. Louis Civil Liberties Committee: minutes of meetings; correspondence relating to membership, civil liberties issues and problems; budget and promotional material; memos and reports from the American Civil Liberties Union (New York Office); various pamphlets, reports, brochures, articles relating to Civil Liberties, some published by SLCLC, some by the national office, the rest by other institutions