Description
Included in this collection are pamphlets, newspaper clippings, magazine articles and
correspondence dealing with the D.A.R. blacklist controversy.
Background
In 1928, Mrs. Helen Tufts Bailie wrote an article accusing the Daughters of the American
Revolution of circulating a "blacklist" of men and women who would not be welcome as
speakers before D.A.R. members. The "blacklisted" people were accused of being
Communists, Socialists, liberals, pacifists. Among those blacklisted by the D.A.R. was
David Starr Jordan, former president of Stanford University. Many D.A.R. members and
others protested the blacklist. Finally the Palo Alto chapter of the D.A.R. resigned
their membership in the national organization.
Restrictions
Publication Rights:
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of
the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please
contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
Availability
Access Restrictions:
None.