Manuscript Register

 

RECORDS OF

AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE

IOWA FEDERATION

 

Collections dates: 1970 -- 1974

39 items

 

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39 items

 

 

Posted to the Internet April 2002

Acquisition Note: This collection was donated to the University of Iowa Libraries by the Iowa chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State in 1974, with several subsequent addenda.

 

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History  

Americans United for Separation of Church and State was founded in 1947 to preserve "free, religiously neutral, democratically controlled public education" in the United States. It is opposed to all governmental or tax aid to parochial schools.

Scope and Contents  

The records of Americans United for Separation of Church and State consist of thirty-nine items dating from 1970 to 1974. Correspondence, sermons, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets are included, all championing their cause. There is also a reprint of a court case "ruling against tax credit parochiaid".

 

Box List

 

Newspaper clippings

Pamphlets

Robert J. Kosydar, Tax Commissioner of Ohio vs. Benson A. Wolmar (the Dec. 29, 1972, Federal Court ruling against tax credit parochiaid), reprinted by Americans United

Sermons by Kenneth Metcalf and Roger Brooks

Stationery sample