Anti-defamation League
Biography
ADL is a leading anti-hate organization. It was founded in 1913 in response to an escalating climate of anti-Semitism and bigotry. The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, Mountain States Regional Office began in 1913 as a volunteer committee in B'nai B'rith, led by Simon Heller. The purpose of the organization was to fight prejudice and intolerance and to preserve the Jewish democratic heritage. The formal organization was established in 1941 as the tri-state office with Harold Saks as the first director. The Mountain States Regional Office in Denver worked toward the elimination of discrimination in employment, housing, accommodations and education.
Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:
Box 18, 1949-1969
(17) file folders include: ADL school integration; ADL separation of church and state; ADL school board elections; Religion in elementary social studies texts; ADL discrimination.
Box 19, 1946-1975
(17) file folders include: Restrictive covenant case; Race riots; ADL books; Tercentary files.
Box 20, 1940-1980
(6) file folders include: ADL newsletters, anniversary meeting scripts, biographies of speakers' bureau.
Box 21, 1947-1977
Miscellaneous- newsclippings, administrative papers, pamphlets.
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- Jews 23
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- Audio-visual materials 3
- Denver (Colo.) 3
- Refuseniks 3
- Committees 2
- Jews, Soviet 2
- Nonprofit organizations 2
- Colorado 1
- Holocaust survivors 1
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 1
- Oral histories 1
- Protest and social movements 1
- Soviet Union 1 + ∧ less