Series II. American Committee for Ulster Justice (ACUJ), 1968-1981, inclusive

This subseries consists of correspondence, memoranda, publications, research notes, and press releases related to the regular activities and the functions of the ACUJ.

This subseries consists of materials concerning the ACUJ's participation in a Congressional hearing before the House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Subcommittee held in the aftermath of the Bloody Sunday shootings in 1972. Materials include correspondence, newsletters, press releases, research notes, transcripts of statements, and information concerning the Kennedy-Ribicoff Resolutions on Violence in Northern Ireland.

This subseries consists of research materials used to inform the ACUJ's testimony in the Congressional hearing before the House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Subcommittee held in the aftermath of the Bloody Sunday shootings in 1972. Included are extensive newspaper clippings from Irish and American newspapers and magazines, transcripts of the Parliament of Northern Ireland debates (1971-1972), and statements made by individuals to the Association for Legal Justice in Belfast that same winter. Of note are the 1972 platforms of the American Democratic and Republican political parties with respect to the situation in Northern Ireland, position papers released by the British and Irish governments, the Amnesty International Report of an Enquiry into Allegations of Ill-Treatment in Northern Ireland, and press coverage concerning St. Patrick's Day in the wake of the 1972 Congressional hearing.