Summary Information

Title: American Council of Christian Laymen Records
Inclusive Dates: 1949-1964

Creator:

• American Council of Christian Laymen

Call Number: Mss 700; Micro 1100; M2004-199

Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) and 38 reels of microfilm (35mm); plus additions of 7.8 c.f., 6 photographs, and 1 negative

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Records, mainly 1950-1962, of the American Council of Christian Laymen (ACCL), a national conservative organization (1949-1964) based in Madison, Wisconsin, that published and distributed literature concerning communist influence within American Protestant churches (especially within the National Council of Churches) and (after 1953) communist propaganda in school textbooks. The bulk of the collection consists of the extensive correspondence of its founder and president Verne P. Kaub. Prominent correspondents include William F. Buckley, James J. Kilpatrick, Joseph R. McCarthy, and many other conservative leaders. Also included are an incomplete run of “Challenge,” the ACCL newsletter; a copy of Kaub's book, Communist-Socialist Propaganda in Our Schools; and other records.

Note:

Portions of this collection are available on microfilm.

“Challenge” and copies of other books and pamphlets by Kaub not in the collection are available in the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Library.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00700

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