Collections : [New York State Modern Political Archive]

This series contains the minutes found in conference folders, correspondence, and documents being considered by both the Student Assembly Membership and Executive Committee. The material illustrates the Student Assembly's relationship with both the SUNY administration and SASU. The series also documents the expansion of the Student Assembly to provide a voice for organized student groups not effectively represented in the past, for example the Third World Caucus (1975-77), the Student Assembly's budget (1973-77), Affirmative Action conference, co-sponsored with SASU, (1975), Academic Affairs conference (1975), and Housing Task Force (1974-76).

The Citizens Budget Commission has held an annual dinner since 1932. The annual dinner celebrates influential individuals. This series contains dinner programs and invitations. Many of the programs have pictures of the honorees. In 1993, a speech was given at the annual dinner by Vincent Tese, who at the time was the director of economic development for New York State. The written version of this speech is in this series.

This series contains various materials that Manley used for his research. It includes court transcripts and briefs, photocopies of manuscripts, reports, notes, news clippings, correspondence, publications, and photographs. Some of this material was used in the writing of Manley's book, The Treaty of Fort Stanwix, 1784. The majority of the material relates to Native American issues, which was an important focus in Manley's legal career. A good portion of this series does have some relationship to legal issues, but it was not included in the Legal Papers Series either because it was not directly related to legal cases or Manley was not directly involved in the relevant cases.

This series includes form letters from the Center soliciting membership and membership forms. Many of the membership forms include copies of checks paid to the Center for yearly dues. Many of the forms came with notes and letters to Alice Green expressing thanks and appreciation for all of the work the Center is doing. The majority of membership forms are from prison inmates in New York State.

This series is comprised of records dating from 1947 to 1950 when Ed Bloch taught biology in Istanbul, Turkey and was a foreign correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor. It includes files on early Cold War related activities, correspondence, Turkish news clippings, articles written for The Christian Science Monitor, essays, short stories, and papers.

This series contains documents regarding Parsons personal financial matters. In some cases, the demarcation between Parsons personal and professional financial involvement is blurred, and a number of the financial documents in this series involve colleagues at General Electric. The series contains correspondence relating to personal loans and debts, stock and bond transactions, cancelled checks and receipts, insurance and tax information, property rights information, and various companies financial statements and plans.

Series 2: Local 253 Minutes is composed of photocopies of Local 253's ledgers.

This series contains material relating to Libby Post's two positions as Press Secretary; for New York State Assemblywoman May W. Newburger and Family Planning Advocates of New York State, Inc. The folders on Newburger include 1984-1985 news clippings and 1985 press releases and related coverage. The folders on Family Planning Advocates of New York State, Inc. contain press releases prepared by Post, notes on preparing for a press conference, documentary material regarding a 10th anniversary celebration, and news clippings regarding the New York State Coalition on Domestic Violence "Speak Out Rally" in 1987.

This series contains newsletters created by the Pride Center. The newsletter called Community, updated members of the center of the upcoming activities of the center. The newsletters also include articles written by the members and announcements about any changes or updates to the center. This series also includes other publications written by other organizations and institutions about the LGBTQ community.